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Intel Researchers See Moore's Law Becoming Obsolete

Posted by simoniker on from the vote-on-it-now dept.

prostoalex writes "A paper, published by Intel researchers, claims we might be the witnesses of Moore's Law becoming obsolete, as the rate of shrinkage for transistors goes lower with each year. In 2018 we might be able to get the chips manufactured with 16-nanometer technology, then one or two more manufacturing processes will shrink it even further, but after that we're facing the physical limits."

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  1. Moore's law is about to hit the wall by Qweezle · · Score: 1, Troll

    Intel said many years ago that 10ghz was a rational barrier. Well, I have an inside connection to Intel, knowing several people who work closely with the company--and next year they will release 4-and-10 ghz chips.

    I assume these will be manufactured on a 90 nm process but I'm not sure...anyway, after 10ghz is hit then what?

    Do they just keep adding cache? OR, how about putting some R&D into something that actually NEEDS a speed boost, like perhaps, RAM, or hard drives!