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Transmeta Founder Talks Chips

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the getting-technical dept.

gManZboy writes "Dave Ditzel, CTO and Founder of Transmeta (you remember Transmeta? weren't they supposed to kick some Intel booty?) sits down and speaks with Alpha and StrongARM chip designer Dan Dobberpuhl about the history of CPUs, where they're heading, and how the heck we'll keep up Moore's Law (if we can)."

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  1. What I'd like to see: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I'd like to see the future of computing (and I do mean desktop computing) where the whole system has no moving parts. You read me, no spinning hard drive, only solid-state MRAM drives (or something.) No fans, not even in the power supply. 5W CPUs with the more processing muscle as today's 60W beasts. Oh, and OLED screens.

    Well that's enough fantasizing for one day.

  2. Moore's Law forever - NOT by fnj · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Moore's Law is probably a limited phenomenon.

    <pedantic>
    Probably? Assuredly, I would say. If transistor count continues to double every 2 years, with 42M transistors per CPU in 2000, you would have 43 billion in 2010, 44 trillion in 2020, 47*10^21 in 2050, and 53*10^36 in 2100. If that hasn't reached the number of atoms in the known universe, then keep counting years and it will.
    </pedantic>