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Moore's Law Will Die Without GPUs
Stoobalou writes "Nvidia's chief scientist, Bill Daly, has warned that the long-established Moore's Law is in danger of joining phlogiston theory on the list of superseded laws, unless the CPU business embraces parallel processing on a much broader scale."
Guy who sells GPUs says if people don't start to buy more GPUs, computers are DOOMED.
I don't know about you, but I'm sold.
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The problem was that Gordon Moore's mouth was full at the time. It wasn't "Moore's Law". It was "more slaw". The rest is history.
Right, there's no physical reason that the rate couldn't be higher or lower.
However, it is a well-fit trend. He saw the trend, and predicted it should continue for at least 10 years. It has continued for much longer than that.
My complaint is with using it as a buzz-word for a completely unrelated phenomenon. He might as well claim that we need to use parallel GPUs to promote synergy in the next paradigm shift, and leverage the dynamic long-tail proactively.
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