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DARPA Looks Beyond Moore's Law

Posted by timothy on from the and-around-and-through dept.

ddtstudio writes "DARPA (the folks who brought you the Internet) is, according to eWeek, looking more than ten years down the road when, they say, chip makers are going to have to have totally new chip fabrication technologies. Quantum gates? Indium Phosphide? Let's keep in mind that Moore's Law was more an observation than a predictive law of nature, despite how people treat it that way."

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  1. Re:what next... by The+No+Vlad+Zone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Exactly. Any new technology put out by these guys is quite likely to contain anti-privacy technology secretly embedded. My 486 running FreeBSD and lynx is still good enough for me.

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  2. Enough with "moore's law" by Thinkit3 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's just a wild guess. It has absolutely nothing to do with physics, which is the real laws we all live by. It has much more to do with human laws such as patents and copyrights that limit progress.

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  3. umm by bperkins · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Let's keep in mind that Moore's Law was more an observation than a predictive law of nature, despite how people treat it that way.

    Let's not and say we did.*

    Seriously, I doubt that many people think that Moore's law is on an equal footing as say gravity and quantum mechanics. Still, an observation that has held more or less for nearly 40 years is worth considering as a very valuable guideline. Let's keep this in mind as well.

    (*Why do vacuous comments like this make it into slashdot stories?)

  4. Re:Wooh there cowboy. by Gherald · · Score: 3, Insightful

    You aren't being forced to do anything... you simply choose to do it to keep up with the times. Many consider this "progress".

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  5. I hate Moore's Law by Liselle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Computer salesmen are using it like a club. You figure it would drive innovation, instead of driving CPU manufacturers take advantage of comsumer ignorance and do fairy magic with clock speeds. We should call it "Moore's Observation".

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  6. Re:It's called by Gherald · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > The Bush Method: all you have to do is take the thing about reality you want to distort, and state that it has changed, whether or not it hasn't

    Why do you give Bush the credit? This shit is Marketing 101 and Politics 102.

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  7. Re:Stacked chips (Sloooowwww) by temojen · · Score: 4, Insightful
    the distance the information would have to travel when going trough the "vertical interconnects" would be thousands or tens of thousands bigger than the distance of any on-chip interconnection.

    But also thousands or hundreds of thousands of times smaller than going outside the package; which would make it ideal for multi-processors, array processors, or large local caches.

  8. Re:Moore's law is already ending by roystgnr · · Score: 4, Insightful

    For example, 90% of desktop CPU use could get by without floating point math

    Well, except for games.

    And anything that uses 3D.

    And audio/video playback and work.

    And image editing.

    And some spreadsheets.

    What's that leave, web surfing and word processing? No, even the web surfing is going to use the FPU as soon as you hit a Flash or Java applet.