In 2 years time, he will have died at 188. (edit for maths failure)
Gordon Moore has died
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#32Wow 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
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#33This seems like a good reason to change the bar color on HN.
Yeah, no question. I'm sure it is coming.
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#34Wow, 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).
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.
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#36When you zoom out on the timeline of humanity, this man, among others, will have left a huge spike in our technological progress. When I look back at the last 50 years and compare it to all known previous human history, I'm quite humbled to be alive during this timeline with them, despite some things I also greatly abhor.
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#37This seems like a good reason to change the bar color on HN.
Yeah, no question. I'm sure it is coming.
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.
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#38I 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.
Well, for me getting started it was Zilog (but the Z80 was based on the Intel 8080), Mostech and Motorola. But Intel had a big input too, and of course an overwhelming influence with the 8086.
And as John Donne said:
"any man's death diminishes me"
but some more than others.
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#39Before 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…
Eve if Moore’s law is dead, it lived way longer than any law claiming a doubling every two years has a right to. Compound annual growth of 41% per year for 40+ years is astonishing.
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#40Earlier 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.
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).