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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. 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.

    --
    -Libertarian secular transhumanist
  2. 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.

  3. 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.