Igor Delovski Board

[XNote]

Digg: Moore's Law is dead, says Gordon Moore

Forty years after the publication of his law, which states that transistor
density on integrated circuits doubles about every two years, Moore said
this morning: "It can't continue forever. The nature of exponentials is that
you push them out and eventually disaster happens."

[delovski]

Wiki: Moore's Law

"Moore's Law is the empirical observation made in 1965 that the number of
transistors on an integrated circuit for minimum component cost doubles
every 24 months."

Wiki: Gordon Moore

"Gordon Earle Moore (b. January 3, 1929) is the cofounder of Intel Corporation
and the author of Moore's law (published in an article 19 April 1965 in
Electronics Magazine)."

[delovski]

JoS: Slightly technical question about processor cores and processes

"I understand why chip makers (AMD and Intel) want to move to smaller
processes for their chips (like the move to 65nm from 90nm) ... It helps
them produce more chips per silicon wafer.

What I don't understand is why moving to a smaller process is supposed to
bring a power consumption per chip down and why it causes the number of
transistors on the chip to go up?"

[delovski]

digg - Intel Founder And Director Max Palevsky Dies

He lamented “the hypnotic quality of computer games, the substitution of
a Google search for genuine inquiry, the instant messaging that has replaced
social discourse.” He meant it too. “I don’t own a computer,” he told The Los
Angeles Times in 2008. “I don’t own a cellphone, I don’t own any electronics.
I do own a radio.”

[Ike]

https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/andrew-s-grove-1936-2016/