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A comment on Moore's law hits the roof.

Re:Moore's law hits the roof by woodchuck64 on Sunday December 27, 2015 @02:56PM (#10798542)
> Another possible improvement is to include a programmable logic device on the CPU chip.

Given that, earlier this year, Intel plunked down 16 billion to buy #2 FPGA maker Altera, this might turn out to be the most interesting improvement.

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Re:Moore's law hits the roof by dennisgorelik on Sunday December 27, 2015 @11:00PM (#10799784)
How come losing money is an improvement?
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Re:Moore's law hits the roof by woodchuck64 on Monday December 28, 2015 @03:48PM (#10803279)
> How come losing money is an improvement?

Purchasing a company is not necessarily "losing money" unless no synergy is possible between core competences. But in fact, Altera/Intel's respective core competences suggest programmable logic devices next to high-speed multi-core CPUs may be one way to keep Moore's law going (See http://www.eejournal.com/archives/articles/20140624-intel/ for example).

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