Sunday, May 15, 2016

Intel CEO Says Reports of the Death of Moore's Law Have Been Greatly Exaggerated

Intel CEO Says Reports of the Death of Moore's Law Have Been Greatly Exaggerated - ABC News
"...CEO Brian Krzanich said he still believes Moore's Law, the rule that predicts explosive growth in computer power, will continue to hold true.
PHOTO: A marketing representative for IBM demonstrates how to use one of the companys computers in this May 8, 1983 file photo.In 1965, Gordon Moore, a co-founder of Intel, predicted that the number of tiny electrical switches that could be placed on a computer chip, called transistors, would double approximately every two years at a roughly fixed cost. 
..."In my 34 years in the semiconductor industry, I have witnessed the advertised death of Moore’s Law no less than four times..."
...IBM showed off a prototype chip last year that was hailed as a technological breakthrough for the tiny transistors -- electrical switches that help power a computer -- that have been made so thin they're 1/10,000th the width of a human hair.
-- could allow as many as 20 billion transistors to be placed on a chip the size of a fingernail and is half the size of the current 14 nanometer standard, company officials said.
A nanometer is one-billionth of a meter."

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