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Moore's Law Disputed

Posted by Hemos on from the yet-another-one dept.

Kumiorava writes "Transistors can be packed to same chip two times more in every 18 months. This Moore's law has been repeated already over 30 years. Computers become faster, IT economy grows, but Moore's law doesn't apply. That has been proven by researcher Ilkka Tuomi. You can read the research from First Monday article The Lives and Death of Moore's Law." 'tho, to be fair, it seems to me that Moore's Law has lasted a lot longer then the throng of people who keep predicting its death.

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  1. Re:There goes another one of my solid beliefs :) by Da+Fokka · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    To answer my own question, maybe things will start falling upwards when I'm capable of posting stuff without typo's :)

  2. need a longer Now... by darekana · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    The clock for a longer now...

    and some slow food to eat while we wait for now to pass us by.

    That's what we need.

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