Intel is still the primary CPU on most laptops produced today; and only in the last 6-12 months I've started seeing some options to buy AMD powered laptops.
Even ignoring that Intel's vPRO/ME implementation is still scarier (potentially more invasive) than the somewhat equivalent AMD "feature".
The Lenovo X395 was released in 2019 w/2nd gen ryzen.
Then their X13 in 2020 w/3rd gen ryzen, meaning you could have been using an 8-core X13 for years by now.
This market segmentation introduced by Intel has broken the tradition created by IBM, who had taken care from the beginning to provide the IBM PC with error-detecting memory.
It is true that the Intel wafers might be fabricated in USA, besides a few other places in Israel or Europe.
However, it is likely that the assembly employs more workers than the wafer fabrication plants.
I have heard this repeated for almost 30 years. Are they really?
Or are they one discovery away from continuing?
If you go read what his article said, it's very clear and incontestable ended. Still, that doesn't stop a bunch of people that have no idea what Moore's Law was about from claiming whatever they want to.
Anyway, where did you hear Moore's Law ended 30 years ago? That one doesn't make sense.
You are thinking of denard scaling. Transistors have been shrinking and counts have been increasing.
Anyway, where did you hear Moore's Law ended 30 years ago?
People were saying it was going to end, not that it already ended.
Not only has the number of transistors on the largest package not followed an exponential for a decade (a good hint is that people denying it repeats the law with X changed on every single iteration), but as fabs adopt more and more complex processes, the number of transistors on the most economical package has been growing very slowly, with no perspective of a doubling any soon.
On a deeper reading, the Moore's paper is all about the economics of semiconductor fabrication. And not only companies that aren't on the most advanced process are not failing as they used to, but nobody is using the law anymore to size investments.
There is just no way to read Moore's Law and interpret it into something that still exists.
> People were saying it was going to end, not that it already ended.
Oh, so you meant to say that they were correct?
We know for years that carbon nanotubes can make great, very compact, very fast transistors. There's nothing close to a practical application of this discovery, because we barely know how to make nanotubes in tiny amounts, a handful of labs, at a great expense.
Dennard scaling broke down around 2005 or 2006.
Are we one discovery away? No, probably not. Leakage current isn't a "one trick" problem, especially as the features continue to get smaller. It's a fundamentally hard problem, and as you go to smaller feature sizes, it keeps getting harder. As we go to 3D approaches, thermal issues probably aren't "one trick" away either.
(Unless you use an extremely strict definition of it, of course. I don’t think that’s reasonable, though, given, reading https://www.researchgate.net/publication/220166914_The_Lives..., that even Moore changed the definition a few times)
Basically it's as if Intel bought AMD and switched, but AMD had some visionary CEO that could lead Intel to victory.
The days of Moore are over. Still I used to hate Intel, but now root for them. I guess I like underdogs.