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by akuma73 10y ago
Intel competes with itself. It needs to encourage people to upgrade as frequently as possible.
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by akuma73 10y ago
Flash and DRAM only have localized activity so heat isn't so much an issue - yet. There is actually a limit study using fundamental physics that shows that the amount of heat you can remove from a solid per unit time has a limit. Over
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by akuma73 10y ago
There are thermal issues with die stacking. Where does the heat go? This is a general problem in solid state physics. Power density is already a huge problem.
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by akuma73 10y ago
What will replace Moore's law as the engine of exponential growth? The progress in the last 30 years in computing will not be replicated in the next 30 years for the simple reason that we are hitting hard physical limits of atomic sca
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by akuma73 10y ago
I'm with Sean Carroll here. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence (Bayesian reasoning). http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2015/05/26/warp-dri...
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by akuma73 10y ago
Here's the wikipedia entry which also mentions Einstein's paper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capillary_action
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by akuma73 10y ago
Don't feel too bad. Fully understanding the complete stack of a modern computer system is outside the scope of almost everyone. These things are complicated and we've built abstractions, interfaces and modules to manage the compl
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by akuma73 10y ago
That's how exponential work. There is an end to it and it's not far off. Exponential transistor scaling (Moore's Law) has ended.
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by akuma73 10y ago
Bohmian mechanics is fundamentally incompatible with quantum field theory. QFT is the best theory we have today (standard model).
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by akuma73 10y ago
It's taken 15 billion years since the big bang for our relatively complex atoms to form - from supernovae. Yes, we were generated in the core of stars. The entire superstructure of the universe is what allows us to exist in the first
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by akuma73 10y ago
The point is to broadcast your economic status.
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by akuma73 10y ago
I agree here with the word "possible". However, progress on this front would be slow due to the increased cost of software development. Software would be much more difficult to write leading to longer lead times for applications.
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by akuma73 10y ago
Great list! To quote Bob Colwell (former Intel fellow and DARPA director), it's hard to replace an exponential. There will be non-uniform improvements and "one-off" type of breakthroughs but a sustained 2x every 2x years is
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by akuma73 10y ago
It's not as if Intel and others haven't looked at this and other III-V materials. These GaNs seem to be more suited towards amplifiers and a replacement for the kinds of components that GaAs is currently used - not digital logic.
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Intel's CEO planned – then scrapped – a fund-raiser for Donald Trump(recode.net)
1 points by akuma73 10y ago|0 comments
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by akuma73 10y ago
Low margin ARM is already cannibalizing high margin x86 as more and more compute uses cases move from PC to smartphone (social media, casual gaming, web browsing, video, camera and so on). Photoshop, spreadsheets and the like are still on
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by akuma73 10y ago
>> low-margin x86 would cannibalize high-margin x86 What happens when low-margin ARM cannibalizes high-margin x86?
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by akuma73 10y ago
The end of Moore's Law has broad industry-wide implications. Imagine if Moore's Law had ended in the year 2000 - no smartphones... A lot of future technologies that rely on exponential increases in silicon capability will not be
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by akuma73 10y ago
When Moore's Law ends (imminently), performance and performance/watt will be harder and harder to come by. In the long term, there may be a reversal in the trend towards "easy" languages.
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by akuma73 11y ago
Intel used an asynchronous technique in their Pentium-4 processors. You may recall that the internal core ALUs ran at 2x the frequency of the rest of the chip. This was done with self timed domino circuits. These are notoriously difficult
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by akuma73 11y ago
I couldn't agree more. In my experience, most of the people that really love Austin are the types that have never lived in a large diverse city before. Of course Austin is great compared to some small town. There's no point of r
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by akuma73 11y ago
That is interesting, but the rats in this study don't have as well engineered feet as humans and don't sweat either.
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by akuma73 11y ago
Perhaps I am economically naive, but why does there need to be any inflation? Why isn't 0 a target?
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by akuma73 11y ago
Intel is still incentivized to provide much higher performance CPUs to the market because they compete with themselves - they want to encourage upgrades. What you're seeing here is beginning of the end of Moore's Law. Dennard sca
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by akuma73 11y ago
May I ask why?
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by akuma73 11y ago
You mean "when" :)
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by akuma73 11y ago
I don't really understand this deal. Altera and Intel already have a fab agreement and Intel is desperate to get customers into their mothballed fabs. All this talk of technology collaboration could be accomplished with strategic partn
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by akuma73 11y ago
Sean Carroll does a fantastic job here: http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/eternitytohere/quantum/
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Moore’s Law Is Dead; Watch Out Intel, Samsung(online.barrons.com)
2 points by akuma73 11y ago|1 comments
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by akuma73 12y ago
X-Gene 1 is in ancient 40nm technology. Haswell is 2 generations ahead in 22nm Finfet technology. The gap should close as the process technologies get closer.

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