Rest in peace, legend.
Gordon Moore has died
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#72We changed the url from https://www.intc.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1611/... to the one from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35297487, which has more background.
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#73I was a kid reading 'Popular Electronics' in the mid 70's in a rural Florida high school. I did an English class presentation on transistors, mentioning Moore's Law. My electronics never got past the Radio Shack 150-in-1 Electronics kit and I went into software. I feel like I owe my career there to the work of the geniuses like Moore who not only made something rare and special, they made it common, nearly universal.
Dad was an electrical automotive mechanic so I didn't have a choice there.
Did EE/CS and have all the standard electronic lab bits from a trinocular microscope w/ polarized ring light to the JBC knock-off soldering station. I keep meaning to buy an HP 54600B to get the Tetris easter egg.
Software and systems are where the money's at now (until the tech singularity ruins it), hardware is just for fun.
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#74Wow 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!
>yesterday a few days ago i like this. keeps people guessing as to why it was phrased as such. makes it more mysterious
I parse it as:
Yesterday, it was a few days ago.
Today, it was many days ago :)
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#75Wow, 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.
Moore lived long enough to see Intel financialized, and its engineering crown taken by its rivals. Only the paranoid survive, one of his colleagues once said, and I guess Intel stopped being sufficiently paranoid.
Intel is not dead, wounded perhaps. I would still be very surprised to see them disappear.
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#76Moore's law is really dead now
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#77Moore's law is really dead now
I bet i’m not the only one that was looking through comments for this.
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#78Rest in peace.
Truly, one of the giants upon whose shoulders we all stand.
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#79Wow, 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.
> Sometimes it feels like we don't have giants in the 21st century in the same way.
Somehow it feels like we'll never have legends in an age when GPT-4/5/... are accessible to everyone.
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#80His perspective must have been pretty gnarly. Starting from literally the ground floor when it comes to transistors and personal computers - and living to see stuff like the 13900k. RIP.