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Forget Moore's Law?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the but-its-worked-so-well-so-far dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "On a day where CNET News.com releases a story named "Moore's Law to roll on for another decade," it's refreshing to look at another view. Michael S. Malone says we should forget Moore's law, not because it isn't true, but mainly because it has become dangerous. "An extraordinary announcement was made a couple of months ago, one that may mark a turning point in the high-tech story. It was a statement by Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google. His words were both simple and devastating: when asked how the 64-bit Itanium, the new megaprocessor from Intel and Hewlett-Packard, would affect Google, Mr. Schmidt replied that it wouldn't. Google had no intention of buying the superchip. Rather, he said, the company intends to build its future servers with smaller, cheaper processors." Check this column for other statements by Marc Andreessen or Gordon Moore himself. If you have time, read the long Red Herring article for other interesting thoughts."

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  1. well now... by stinky+wizzleteats · · Score: 4, Funny

    This makes me feel a lot less like a cantankerous, cheap old fart for not replacing my Athlon 650.

  2. Transistors? BAH! by The+Night+Watchman · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm waiting for DNA Computers! Shove a hamburger into where the floppy drive used to be, run gMetabolize for Linux (GNUtrients?), in a few hours my machine isn't obsolete anymore.

    Either that, or it mutates into an evil Steve Wozniak and strangles me in my sleep.

    /* Steve */

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  3. Eh? by Mr_Silver · · Score: 4, Funny
    Michael S. Malone says we should forget Moore's law, not because it isn't true, but mainly because it has become dangerous.

    How can Moore's law become dangerious?

    If you break it, will you explode into billions of particles?

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  4. It's in the gospel by datadictator · · Score: 4, Funny

    And that day the spirits of Turing and Von Neumann spoke unto Moore of Intel granting him insight and wisdomn to understand the future. And Moore was with chip and he brought forth the chip and named it 4004. And Moore did bless the chip saying: "Thou art a breakthrough, with my own corporation have I fabricated thee. Thou art yet as small as a dust mote, yet shall thou grow and replicate unto the size of a mountain and conquer all before thee. This blessing I give unto thee: Every eighteen months shall thou double in capacity, until the end of the age." This is Moores law, which endures to this day.

    Do not mess with our religion :-)

    Untill the end of the epoch, Amen.

    PS. With thanks to a source which I hope is obvious.

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