Is Moore's Law Still Relevant?

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For now at least, Moore's Law is still true, and for as long as it is true, it is relevant. At some time in the future, maybe 15 years maybe much longer, Moore's Law will finally hit the wall, and it will no longer be true. Then it will no longer be relevant.
 

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This article is a waste of time. He basically states that competition is the driving force behind chip advancements, not Moore's Law. Well no sh*t. Moore's Law isn't something that is actually followed, it is just an observation of the advancement of chip designs. I want my 10 minutes back.
 

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That's simple, the frequency triples every 12-18 months around the time of the announcement of a new fab process, and then dies down again. :p

I think I'll call it Rahman's Law. lol
 

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I hope the post Sandy Bridge architectures would bring more computing power with less power consumption to the end users, with affordable prices.
 

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[citation][nom]tirinti[/nom]Intel have been making pathetick AMD style CPUs for few yeara. I had 3.4GHz Pentium 4 6 years ago. Now I have just bought i7 2600K wchih is stupid Athlon style name for i7 3.8GHz... just 400MHz faster than i have 6 years ago. I had also pathetic 3.33GHz Core2 Duo E8600. It was slower than my P4, but just a litle bit and I bought it because of new motherboard features. Where are times when CPU were known by its speed 386DX 40MHz, 486DX2 66MHz, Pentium 100MHz, Pentium 200MMx, Pentium II 300MHz, Pentium III 450MHz, Petium III 700MHz, Pentium 4 1.6GHz, Pentium 4 2.8GHz and finally Pentium 4 3.4GHz... then stupid consumers started complaining about power consumption. I wish nVidia started making x86 CPUs. they would made 20GHz 1kW TDP CPU just like they do theier GeForce GPUs.[/citation]
You are such and idiot.
 

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“Moore’s law” has been given too much of importance than it deserves where it’s more of a guideline than a law, while Intel is using it in its marketing.
 

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[citation][nom]tirinti[/nom]Intel have been making pathetick AMD style CPUs for few yeara. I had 3.4GHz Pentium 4 6 years ago. Now I have just bought i7 2600K wchih is stupid Athlon style name for i7 3.8GHz... just 400MHz faster than i have 6 years ago. I had also pathetic 3.33GHz Core2 Duo E8600. It was slower than my P4, but just a litle bit and I bought it because of new motherboard features. Where are times when CPU were known by its speed 386DX 40MHz, 486DX2 66MHz, Pentium 100MHz, Pentium 200MMx, Pentium II 300MHz, Pentium III 450MHz, Petium III 700MHz, Pentium 4 1.6GHz, Pentium 4 2.8GHz and finally Pentium 4 3.4GHz... then stupid consumers started complaining about power consumption. I wish nVidia started making x86 CPUs. they would made 20GHz 1kW TDP CPU just like they do theier GeForce GPUs.[/citation]
Come on man, haven’t you heard about multi-core processors and how efficient they are compared to single core processors?
 

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[citation][nom]tirinti[/nom]Intel have been making pathetick AMD style CPUs for few yeara. I had 3.4GHz Pentium 4 6 years ago. Now I have just bought i7 2600K wchih is stupid Athlon style name for i7 3.8GHz... just 400MHz faster than i have 6 years ago. I had also pathetic 3.33GHz Core2 Duo E8600. It was slower than my P4, but just a litle bit and I bought it because of new motherboard features. Where are times when CPU were known by its speed 386DX 40MHz, 486DX2 66MHz, Pentium 100MHz, Pentium 200MMx, Pentium II 300MHz, Pentium III 450MHz, Petium III 700MHz, Pentium 4 1.6GHz, Pentium 4 2.8GHz and finally Pentium 4 3.4GHz... then stupid consumers started complaining about power consumption. I wish nVidia started making x86 CPUs. they would made 20GHz 1kW TDP CPU just like they do theier GeForce GPUs.[/citation]
I'll take your CPU if you wish. Trust me, i love Bad CPUs, i'll give you my prized Pentium 4 for it.
 
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In all the hoopla over Moore's law concerned with computer performance,
a lot of people seemed to forget that it was Turing Machines
that licked off AI tech itself. And Turing Machines work even
better with satellites, atomic clocks,smart phones,and DNA labs than transitors.
So it's still going to be several hundred years before
digital tech itself tops off.

 

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[citation][nom]Anonymous[/nom]Intel have been making pathetick AMD style CPUs for few yeara. I had 3.4GHz Pentium 4 6 years ago. Now I have just bought i7 2600K wchih is stupid Athlon style name for i7 3.8GHz... just 400MHz faster than i have 6 years ago. I had also pathetic 3.33GHz Core2 Duo E8600. It was slower than my P4, but just a litle bit and I bought it because of new motherboard features. Where are times when CPU were known by its speed 386DX 40MHz, 486DX2 66MHz, Pentium 100MHz, Pentium 200MMx, Pentium II 300MHz, Pentium III 450MHz, Petium III 700MHz, Pentium 4 1.6GHz, Pentium 4 2.8GHz and finally Pentium 4 3.4GHz... then stupid consumers started complaining about power consumption. I wish nVidia started making x86 CPUs. they would made 20GHz 1kW TDP CPU just like they do theier GeForce GPUs.[/citation]

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