Slashdot Mirror
Forty Years of Moore's Law
kjh1 writes "CNET is running a great article on how the past 40 years of integrated chip design and growth has followed [Gordon] Moore's law. The article also discusses how long Moore's law may remain pertinent, as well as new technologies like carbon nanotube transistors, silicon nanowire transistors, molecular crossbars, phase change materials and spintronics. My favorite data point has to be this: in 1965, chips contained about 60 distinct devices; Intel's latest Itanium chip has 1.7 billion transistors!"
The amount of articles mentioning Moore's law will double each year.
my blog
If not I herbey proclaim it Goat's Law.
My days of not taking you seriously are certainly coming to a middle...
My favorite data point has to be this: in 1965, chips contained about 60 distinct devices; Intel's latest Itanium chip has 1.7 billion transistors!
Uh, wouldnt that be two data points?
Intel's latest Itanium chip has 1.7 billion transistors!"
No wonder they call it the Itanic! Both were big and huge and failed miserably.
they are just very, very small. ;)
"Gordon's theorem"
Ah yes, the theory that at any given moment on the space-time continuum, you will always have just enough processing power to play the current release of Half Life...
Michale Moore has a law now? Great, and I haven't even seen his film Rescue 911 yet. Now I understand why Disney tried to crush him and his law-making ego.
It's buried right next to BSD, adjacent to the freshly dug grave for World of Warcraft.
Sometimes my arms bend back.
no, Murphys Law is eventually one day someone will make a cyborg police officer.
They left out one of the s's in transistor to get all of them to fit.
they are just very, very small.
Actually they're rather large, but cleverly Intel have found a way to story them in an alternate universe using Portable Blackhole Technology(TM). Cross your fingers and hope nobody in that alternate universe stumbles across them.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
I can just see Dr. Evil now...
"I demand the chip have...SIXTY TRANSISTORS!" (pinky lightly touches corner of mouth).
The guys at Intel start laughing hysterically...
"I've changed my mind...I demand the chip have...ONE POINT SEVEN BILLION TRANSISTORS!" (pinky lightly touches corner of mouth)
Intel guys gasp in shock...
Rather than calculating this forward in time, didn't someone trace this backwards in time, i.e. that you can see it halving every 18 months going back to the nineteenth century? I can't find a link on Google but I swear I saw it somewhere...
People are questioning Copyright Law and it is not called theory because of that either.
Linux is not Windows
Score:-1, Flamebait
Get yourself a barbeque
Now that's funny. But if it gets modded as funny then it won't be funny anymore
Gates Law: MS Code bloat will double at the same interval as Moores law.
Portable Blackhole Technology(TM).
Not to start a flamewar here, but AMDs Micro Singularity Architecture(TM) is vastly superior to intel's PBT.
The Itanium story
Number of transistors= 1.7 billion
Number of units sold = 1.7K
Money invested= gazillion dollars
Tasting dirt from your puny competition (read AMD)= priceless
resurrect my
Somehow, sometime, Moores law will fail.
Then you will have Lazenby's, Connery's, Dalton's, then (perhaps) Brosnan's law fail as well. Some laws can be.....broken, and twisted, and....um suckey. That last illiterative is mine....all mine, Mr. Bond.
Never play chicken with a passive aggressive.
...in 1956, when they managed to fit one component on to a device.
I’m old enough to remember 16K of memory being described as “whopping”
40th anniversary? That's weird, I swear just about a year and a half ago it was the 20th anniversary.
Just never, ever, ever put the chip in backwards. I lost a living room, half a dining room, and 3 cats that way.