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Andy Grove Says End Of Moore's Law At Hand
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."
Take that, Anonymous Coward's beliefs!
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
Except that there's not really a fossil fuel problem, other than the monopoly of OPEC and unwillingness to actually use the resources we have on the part of the dems.
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If a shortage does happen, we already have the technology & ideas to find other ways to power our cars, homes, etc. It would be just plain stupid to go ahead and find this kindof a solution to a problem that doesn't exist at this time.
When silicon does top out, surely they'll find new materials to make them out of. Why would they find an alternative for silicon before they have even reached the limits? I wouldn't say it would waste money on research, because i think all research is valuable... but pushing it onto consumers at a time when there's not really the need isn't very smart.
The same goes with your fossil fuels analogy.
Anyway... just my
In Soviet Russia, Moore's Law ends you!