Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 17:19:59 10/22/03
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On October 21, 2003 at 10:00:54, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On October 20, 2003 at 23:32:37, Dave Gomboc wrote: > >>On October 16, 2003 at 18:49:55, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >> >>>1. Moore's law is NOT A LAW. Its going to come to an end by 2020, if not >>>earlier. >> >>I doubt it. As each technology reaches its limits, a new one comes along. For >>instance, by the time transistors hit the size limit, 3-D molecular computing >>will have arrived. >> >>Dave > > >QED moore's law ends. Note that Moore's law is _not_ about doubling the >speed of a processor every 18 months to two years. It is about doubling >the _density_ of electronic parts. I think of it as the amount of computation one can perform with a processor at a fixed dollar cost. Perhaps that's not how he actually formulated it. Dave
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