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Andy Grove Says End Of Moore's Law At Hand

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ibm-says-otherwise dept.

Jack William Bell writes "Intel chief Andy Grove says Moore's Law has reached its limit. Pointing to current leaks in modern chips, he says -- "Current is becoming a major factor and a limiter on how complex we can build chips," said Grove. He said the company' engineers "just can't get rid of" power leakage. -- But, of course, this only applies to semiconductor chips, there is no guarantee that some other technology will not take over and continue the march of smaller, cheaper and faster processors. I remember people saying stuff like this years ago before MOSFET." Update: 12/11 22:01 GMT by T : Correction: the text above originally mangled Andy Grove's name as "Andy Moore."

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  1. 15% ! by nogoodmonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    The industry is used to power leakage rates of up to fifteen per cent, but chips constructed of increasing numbers of transistors can suffer power leakage of up to 40 per cent said Grove.

    No wonder my laptop only gets about a hour of runtime on its battery. :-)

  2. Great! by Lagged2Death · · Score: 5, Funny

    So, this means that anything that possibly can go wrong no longer will! Hey, I'm all for that!

    What? Moore's Law? Oh. Nevermind.

  3. Great! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I can just buy a really fast computer and know that I'll never need to upgrade again!

  4. Newton? by pa3gvr · · Score: 5, Funny

    As long as Newton's law stays in effect I am not to worried.

    BTW do most of the users really need fast machines? I can do all my work without any problems on my 333Mhz PII

    CU :-) Sjaak

  5. Shucks... by swordboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was waiting for the commemorative Pentium XT running at 4.77GHz.

    --

    Life is the leading cause of death in America.
  6. Re:"The End" by tigertigr · · Score: 5, Funny

    I predict that, henceforth, these "The End of Moore's Law" articles will double in number every 18 months or so. Eventually all the posts we see on Slashdot will be about The End of Moore's Law. Furthermore, I propose we call this new law Les's Law.

  7. Re:Hmm.... by ez76 · · Score: 5, Funny
    well, a super-conductor will not be in my computer for a long time since high temp ones operate at 32k
    You underestimate the resolve of overclockers' cooling solutions.
  8. Re:Yes... -- was Re:Andy Moore? by poot_rootbeer · · Score: 5, Funny


    Well, don't worry. I'm sure one of the crack Slashdot editors will just go in and fix... oh yeah.