Re:Intel Kills “Tick-Tock”
by ricw on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @11:49AM
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It certainly isn't dead. It is slower than it was before. Moore's original law stated that every 12 months the number of transistors would double. That was revised to 18 month in the 90s, and is now due another update.
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I guess we can agree to disagree on that one. Every trend we look into, we see signs of it's death from memory prices to Intel's struggles on recent chips.
Furthermore it's not a useful trend anymore if it's due for an update. What would that new constant be that people feel confident will hold over the next 10 years? Seems like quite the Frankenstein "law" to be hacking piecewise functions together.
If it's not dead, it's certainly dying. Perpetual exponential growth is irrational given finite resources.