Some in the industry think that those days are over.
Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel, is the man responsible for Moore’s Law.
It’s an observation Moore made that the transistor density of integrated circuits doubles every two years.
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Some say that Moore’s Law is now dead, but why?
Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase.
- Gordon Moore inCramming more components onto integrated circuits.
This can be interpreted in a few ways, but it implies two things.
Second, that this would also be true at the lowest cost level.
So while transistor density is still doubling, the pace seems to be slowing down.
In other words, it’s not like a natural law that describes how things like gravity work.
It’s an observation and a projection of historical trends into the future.
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However, not just how many transistors you have but what you do with them counts.
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At the time of writing,5nmand 3nm manufacturing processes are the current and next generation of technology.
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Remember, transistor count is only one part of performance.
After all, the exponential plot would eventually trend towards infinite transistor density and computing performance.
There are already numerous challenges with the tiny components in modern processors struggling with unwanted quantum effects.
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