Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:28:54 01/25/03
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On January 25, 2003 at 16:31:25, Sune Fischer wrote: >On January 24, 2003 at 23:20:58, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >[snipped a huge amout, that should have been snipped looong ago so people don't >have to scroll for half an our to read 5 lines] > >>>I think that they forgot the fact that the hardware is not twice faster every >>>year and the progress in hardware is going to stop sometime in the future. >>> >>>300 Mhz were used in the end of 97 in the microcomputer world championship in >>>paris (Today, more than 5 years later we do not have 300*32=9600Mhz. >>> >>>Uri >> >> >>Moore's law is running on a roughly 18 month cycle. 1.5 years. 5 years == >>three doublings. 8 * 300 is 2400, which is a bit behind, since we are at 3.0+ >>today. > >Actually I believe Moore's law was about the number of transistors, and not >about speed (common misconception). > >http://www.intel.com/research/silicon/mooreslaw.htm > >-S. Yes, but if you look carefully, density and speed are proportional, hence the common usage about doubling speed...
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