Author: Sune Fischer
Date: 02:31:12 01/26/03
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On January 25, 2003 at 21:28:54, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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... Yes, that is probably not far off. But measuring speed is not as simple as merely looking to the MHz, the P4 vs K7 is a prime example of that :) -S.
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