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Re:Moore’s Law Running Out of Room, Tech Looks for a Successor by randommodnar on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @12:13PM (#11629367)
Can we quit with the Moore's law bullshit? It's not a law! It's just an observation about the direction a graph seems to be moving.

Yeah, we hope processors keep getting more powerful. Calling this "Moore's law" is idiotic. And probably confuses poor journalists and undergrads.

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Re:Moore’s Law Running Out of Room, Tech Looks for a Successor by bravo22 on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @12:15PM (#11629382)
In all fairness the article says:

"Despite its official sound, it is not actually a scientific rule like Newton’s laws of motion. Instead, it describes the pace of change in a manufacturing process that has made computers exponentially more affordable."

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Re:Moore’s Law Running Out of Room, Tech Looks for a Successor by monk_e_boy on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @03:19PM (#11630942)
It is amazingly interesting and coincidental that the 'law' seems to hold true, year after year.
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