Oddly, www.intel.com has nothing about this on its Canadian frontpage (https://www.intel.com/content/www/ca/en/homepage.html), but their newsroom does: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/home.html
Gordon Moore has died
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#12Wow, we have lost a true legend. As I get older, I marvel a bit at the giants I once shared time on the earth with. Sometimes it feels like we don't have giants in the 21st century in the same way.
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#13Wow just yesterday a few days ago I watched his Oral History:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtcLzokagAw
What I learned is that I had no idea how semiconductors are actually made and how they made them early on.
Its really interesting interview!
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#14Oddly, www.intel.com has nothing about this on its Canadian frontpage ( https://www.intel.com/content/www/ca/en/homepage.html ), but their newsroom does: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/home.html
The US one does https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/homepage.html
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#15A true legend and a giant in the foundations of multiple tech industries and devices all using semiconductor technology and the co-creator and center of "Silicon Valley" and the creator of Moore's Law.
RIP.
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#16Before anyone says that Moore's law is dead, remember that transistors are still getting smaller and more dense (not to mention more expensive, which was another part of his prediction). In every thread people confuse Moore's law with Dennard scaling (which states roughly that, as transistors get smaller, their power density stays constant, so that the power use stays in proportion with area; both voltage and current…
Dennard scaling died 2 decades ago. Moore's law is dead for less than a dexade. It took 4 years for density to double(from N7 to N3). And with density doubled the cost. It will get only worse from here.
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#17Before anyone says that Moore's law is dead, remember that transistors are still getting smaller and more dense (not to mention more expensive, which was another part of his prediction). In every thread people confuse Moore's law with Dennard scaling (which states roughly that, as transistors get smaller, their power density stays constant, so that the power use stays in proportion with area; both voltage and current…
Actually Moores law is dead. His prediction was not transistors would get smaller. His prediction was initial that for 10 years was that density would double every year. And then later that it would double every 18 month.
And this held longer then even he thought. But it has ended. While things still get denser, its no longer on that same trend.
This interview with Moore explains it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtcLzokagAw
History by Cantrill:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TM9h89Vo_Qo
David Patterson perspective:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFT54hO1X8M
Opposing point of view Jim Keller:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIG9ztQw2Gc
Patterson response to Keller:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz0eJA1TP3Y
There are talks by David Patterson, Jim Keller and
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#18Wow, we have lost a true legend. As I get older, I marvel a bit at the giants I once shared time on the earth with. Sometimes it feels like we don't have giants in the 21st century in the same way.
I think it is hard to see giants when they are just innovators.
To everyone around them and especially themselves, they were just pushing the ball forward day-by-day; they weren't heroes or insanely prescient, they were just doing the next logical thing to do. It's only after they've climbed the mountain that you can appreciate what they did.
That's probably the hardest thing about innovation. To everyone who wants to innovate, they only see the mountain. They have the grand idea of where they will end up, when the reality of innovation is just pushing the ball forward one step at a time. It's not heroism or being a genius necessarily, it's persistence and being able to think on the fly.
I think "genius" knows where the general destination is but I feel like most aren't doing it for the destination, they are doing it because they feel it is a calling and what they must do.
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#19Before anyone says that Moore's law is dead, remember that transistors are still getting smaller and more dense (not to mention more expensive, which was another part of his prediction). In every thread people confuse Moore's law with Dennard scaling (which states roughly that, as transistors get smaller, their power density stays constant, so that the power use stays in proportion with area; both voltage and current…
Moore's Law has been dead for a while. The most common confusion I see is that people don't understand he was referring to economical scaling. These days we're getting more density and bigger chips but prices are going up a lot too. More for more instead of more for less.
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#20Wow, we have lost a true legend. As I get older, I marvel a bit at the giants I once shared time on the earth with. Sometimes it feels like we don't have giants in the 21st century in the same way.
I sometimes make myself a mental list of famous people who are expected to die soon. The following people will all die in the next few years: Jimmy Carter (98), Henry Kissinger (99), Dick Cheney (82), Pope Francis (86), Paul McCartney (80), John Williams (91), William Shatner (92), and Ali Khamenei (83).