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So Moore's Law is officially dead. RIP and we will continue to kill the law. Hope the humor reaches you. Rest well.
Interesting way for them to put it, i think I like it.
Wow, 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.
Whatever legacy and mature rebranding they attempt wont be apparent until 2070
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I was thinking the same thing. I'm surprised it's taking this long, honestly. He's such an icon and major player in the history of the computer industry. Edit>> Though I suppose there's a confirmation process HN goes through before sporting the black band.
Let’s not assume badly of them. The real reason is likely that the person who changes it to black (dang?) isn’t around to do it right now.
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I was thinking the same thing. I'm surprised it's taking this long, honestly. He's such an icon and major player in the history of the computer industry. Edit>> Though I suppose there's a confirmation process HN goes through before sporting the black band.
Let’s not assume badly of them. The real reason is likely that the person who changes it to black (dang?) isn’t around to do it right now.
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density would double every year I'm not a physicist, but I think they need to get smaller to do that.
Smaller transistors is one way to get more transistors per chip. Chips could also get bigger, or the transistors could be packed in more densely (my VLSI is rusty, but not all transistors are minimally sized; a wider transistor can be used to push more power for example).
Wow, 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.
Only the paranoid survive, one of his colleagues once said, and I guess Intel stopped being sufficiently paranoid.
Before 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 himself said (mentioned in the link) that the “law” was just supposed to convey that the way to cheaper electronics at the time was to focus on transistors, I don’t think he ever meant it was supposed to be a law of physics that stays true 50 years or 100 years later. In fact he said it would be true for 10 years
So Moore's Law is officially dead. RIP and we will continue to kill the law. Hope the humor reaches you. Rest well.
> We at Intel remain inspired by Moore’s Law, and intend to pursue it until the periodic table is exhausted. Interesting way for them to put it, i think I like it.