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Wow 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
This seems like a good reason to change the bar color on HN.
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.
Try to become a giant yourself - why not?
Regardless, I bid Dr Moore a fond farewell. He lived to see the horizon of his law.
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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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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
This is interesting, I never knew this. Is there somewhere I can read more on his thoughts? I was under the impression (naively so) that this was some invariant that had been somehow proven to an extent.
[1] https://medium.datadriveninvestor.com/moores-law-is-not-real...
For reference to anyone who doesn't know : He is the Moore of Moore's law : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law We lost a visionary and a pioneer. I like to think we have people who not only think like he did, but who can get the message across.
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.
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.
https://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/664484-only-the-parano...
He got Parkinson’s and died 7 years ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11333402
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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).
Not to diminish your list, but notably they're all non scientific, there's a push with Kissinger. (One could see economics as a science) Point being: they only serve the generation who survive them, Moore, will outlive us all, in fact and in legacy. Edit: What I said isn't true, music, movies and arts will outlive us. We have different lists.
Will they? Who watches old movies?