Re:Intel Kills “Tick-Tock”
by Ericson2314 on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @12:21PM
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Moore's law is about transistor density, and thus is oblivious to architecture.
And that's exactly what the parent commenter is saying. Moore's law actually wasn't about transistor density in the beginning, it was changed to this definition when they realized transistor density is the only thing increasing exponentially.
Re:Intel Kills “Tick-Tock”
by Ericson2314 on Thursday March 24, 2016 @07:01PM
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Well, Moore's law is stupid however it is defined, and I do also hope for big benefits from architecture (interface and implementation) work. So I guess I shouldn't be picking an argument :).
[As an aside, I had thought that Moore's law was originally transistor density, and the hype machine spun it into performance. But like I said, Moore's law is doomed regardless, so whatever.]
AlphaGo requires huge amount of energy and CPU power to accomplish what human brain does in 20W, just using a smallish portion of its capabilities. There must be a plenty of undiscovered architectural improvements to computers that can still kick the Moore Law for a couple years.