Wait, didn’t someone post about how he was still alive just today?! Way to jinx it!
Gordon Moore has died
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#22Before 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=g…
density would double every year
I'm not a physicist, but I think they need to get smaller to do that.
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#23Wow, 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 this is tautological - this is how it must always be, and I would guess has been the common view at any given point of time in history.
You can only properly assess and appreciate the impact sufficient to assign 'legend' status to an individual or institution retroactively, decades hence from the actions that elevated them there.
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#24RIP he funded a park near me. Did more than just computers.
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#25Wow, 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).
Buzz Aldrin (93), although he might outlive all of us
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#26For 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.
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#27This seems like a good reason to change the bar color on HN.
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#28Before 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=g…
The prediction wasn't that density would double. It was that "number of transistors on a chip" would double every year, and it was basically just marketing. That actually held up somewhat longer than the density doubling did, since chip area grew to fill the gap.
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#29I wouldn't be who I am today without Intel enabling what I did in my childhood years, so paying my respects isn't nearly enough to make up.
A big, sincere pressing of the F to pay respects. May he rest in peace.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
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=g…
density would double every year I'm not a physicist, but I think they need to get smaller to do that.
They haven't been doing so at that rate for a very long time.