• Alphane MoonOPM
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    71 month ago

    Arguably Moore’s law is indeed dead. But that doesn’t mean we can’t get improvements from other areas like advanced packaging, chip power supply and so on…

    • @Valmond
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      31 month ago

      You missed the /s I don’t think moores law is that dead.

      • Alphane MoonOPM
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        81 month ago

        I guess that would depend on your interpretation of Moore’s law.

        Improvement in semiconductor performance is clearly not dead.

        But “[relatively] easy automatic wins” from moving to a new node are starting to become less common. Prices for new nodes are not getting cheaper (even on a standardized basis), performance/efficiency/size gains are becoming more modest and ramp-up/deployment times are becoming longer and longer.

        • @Valmond
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          11 month ago

          Yeah true, no need to nitpick about transistors per mm² :-)

          Stuff gets denser, sometimes more efficient, and it goes on and on, more to the rhyme of international markets today than trying to keep up with old Moore.

          It also feels like the target market have changed (again), from better PCs to handhelds, for example.

      • @stoly
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        11 month ago

        But I thought it stopped being correct about ten years ago?

        • @Valmond
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          11 month ago

          The chief engineer of Intel predicted that it’d probably be impossible to get to 1um when they broke the 3um barrier.

          Ya, um, not nm. So my bet is it will probably continue, it’s not really a law and everyone interprets it differently too so.