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Moore's Law Staying Strong Through 30nm

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the there's-plenty-of-room-at-the-bottom dept.

jeffsenter writes "The NYTimes has the story on IBM with JSR Micro advancing photolithograhy research to allow 30nm chips. Good news for Intel, AMD, Moore's Law and overclockers. The IBM researchers' technology advance allows for the same deep ultraviolet rays used to make chips today to be used at 30nm. Intel's newest CPUs are manufactured at 65nm and present technology tapped out soon after that. This buys Moore's Law a few more years."

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  1. Moore's Law is so 1998 by Analogue+Kid · · Score: -1, Redundant

    I don't know about the rest of you, but as far as I'm concerned Moore's Law has already petered out. I just bought a couple of new games that run fine on my old computer... the computer I bought four years ago. It's an 1.5ghz Athlon. If speeds really were doubling every 18 months, I'd expect to have an 8ghz Athlon right about now.

    I know CPU speed isn't everything, but there's no way I'm getting 4 times the performance for my money as I did 3 years ago, nor am I getting 8 times the performance I got 4.5 years ago. For storage space, Moore's Law is alive and kicked, but in terms of some things, it died along with the bubble.

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    I'm a gnu world man.