tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17898384.post116002697348288019..comments2024-03-25T21:41:06.801-07:00Comments on Mobile Opportunity: Will Moore's Law slow down?Michael Macehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17966107280587843091noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17898384.post-71315996729811860712009-01-26T15:51:00.000-08:002009-01-26T15:51:00.000-08:00People are also looking at spintronicshttp://ieeex...People are also looking at spintronics<BR/><BR/>http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/login.jsp?url=/iel5/55/30894/01432899.pdf?arnumber=1432899<BR/><BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpintronicsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17898384.post-1160075049721465252006-10-05T12:04:00.000-07:002006-10-05T12:04:00.000-07:00Thanks, and I agree. The thing about most of the ...Thanks, and I agree. The thing about most of the experimental approaches to the heat problem is that they might help a lot (the 100-fold increase in speed you mentioned) or they might not help at all. The future of processor performance is becoming a lot less predictable than it was in the past.<BR/><BR/><I>>>It's just that the industry needs to think more outside the box now ... and stop talking about Moore's never-existing Law.</I><BR/><BR/>Maybe we should rename it "Moore's Expectation." ;-)Michael Macehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17966107280587843091noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17898384.post-1160042200498338522006-10-05T02:56:00.000-07:002006-10-05T02:56:00.000-07:00Moore's Law is an old mind experiment that has no ...Moore's Law is an old mind experiment that has no actual correlation to physics etc except within a very narrow frame of technology, so why do we still talk about it as a law (of physics? of marketing b.s.?)?<BR/><BR/>E.g. switching to super-cooled technology, optical technology or what-not would immediately take away the heat problem, and could potentially also increase performance 10-fold or 100-fold over night. <BR/><BR/>To develop something like an x86-compatible CPU out of such core technology would take a very long time, but maybe it's also time for a complete shift in chip design and CPU architecture. Windows has locked how a CPU should work for a very long time now. Intel's Cell architecture shows one way to make a better CPU with simple means, and that's not stretching it far.<BR/><BR/>It's just that the industry needs to think more outside the box now ... and stop talking about Moore's never-existing Law.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com