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Subject: Re: Is there a theoretical limit to the speed of a processor?

Author: Jesper Antonsson

Date: 12:40:55 06/08/02

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On June 07, 2002 at 14:26:38, Roy Eassa wrote:
>Thank you for a thorough answer.  So the "decades" region is a better guess than
>the "centuries" region for how much longer Moore's Law can hold, eh?

Right. I seem to remember that Intel has stated that they could keep up until
around 2017, which is three years better than "my" estimate. So, give or take a
few years, somewhere around there I think the current paradigm has exhausted its
potential.

>BTW, when I first read your name, I mis-read it as Jennifer Aniston.  (Sorry!)

*ROTFL* Well, it could be worse, I guess. :-)



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