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Re:Huang’s Law Is the New Moore’s Law, and Explains Why Nvid... by beervirus on Sunday September 20, 2020 @11:01AM (#24534419)
Moore’s Law is literally about the number of transistors per IC. Building bigger chips is... extremely similar.
Re:Huang’s Law Is the New Moore’s Law, and Explains Why Nvid... by blp on Sunday September 20, 2020 @12:19PM (#24534873)
Yes, except the important parts. In Moore’s law scaling, you reduce the cost per transistor, and because of that there is money for capex and the consumer benefits.

In Huangs law, si is commoditized, so the benefit accrues to the designer and software makers, and really only in narrow domains.