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Intel Promises A Cool Billion (Transistors)
NevDull writes: "CNN is reporting that Intel has announced new semiconductor packaging which will lead to CPUs with a billion transistors running at 20GHz within 6 years. Yummy!" The advance here is removing the balls of solder between the chip's packaging and the microprocessor core, which leaves room for more transistors (or a thinner package). Like it says, though, this is years away from your pocket Cray.
Ok, their claim, that within 6 years, their chips will be really amazing. I'm surprised that anyone on Slashdot doesn't have a passing familiarity with Moore's law.
Other late breaking news, within 6 years:
Cars will be more fuel-efficient
LCD monitors will be larger
HDTV will be more common
More people will be on the Internet
The Playstation 4 will be released
I'm shocked that this, this PR move is being shown on Slashdot!
Democrats or Republicans. They are both taking us to the same place and they are not afraid of us anymore.
And as usual, Motorola and IBM will develop this technology first and promise chips as fast as 25 GHz. But in reality, the first IBM/Moto chips will come at 12 GHz at about the time that Intel releases their 20 GHz chips.
Apple will introduce the chips in it's new iHyperMac which is the size of a quarter with a holographic display but they will be running downclocked to 10 GHz for marketing reasons.
An infinite set has been defined as a set that has a one-to-one mapping to a subset of itself. In that way, the infinity from the beginning of time to the end of time can be mapped directly onto the infinity from his birthtime to the end of time.
Damn I'm crap at trolling. Lets try harder.
Suck my fucking cock you Muslim shit-eating faggot. You're talking such utter fucking bollock in reply to some lamer's sig. Get a fucking life, loser
I hate to complain, here I go anyway. Moores law isn't a law. Its a fabrication. If I say that according to "Bills Law" the number of transistors in a CPU will grow linearly with the gross domestic product of Bulgaria you'd laugh at me. In truth, however, that's *almost* as valid as Moore's law.
Comparing Intels predictions (as wildly optimistic as they are) to Moore's law is therefore about as productive as trying to teach a duck to sing Ave Maria in Latin
Ok, I feel better know. I'm gonna go get a beer