The Mile Markers of Moore's Law Are Meaningless

szotz writes "Keeping up the pace of Moore's Law is hard, but you wouldn't know it from the way chipmakers name their technology. The semiconductor industry's names for chip generations (Intel's 22nm, TSMC's 28nm, etc) have very little to do with actual physical sizes, says IEEE Spectrum. And the disconnect is only getting bigger. For the first time, the "pay us to make your chip" foundries are offering a new process (with a smaller-sounding name) that will produce chips that are no denser than their forbears. The move is not a popular one."

Comments

What's a mile?

[WillAffleckUW]

Is that some archaic form of measurement used by a backwards nation somewhere?

Well... Thirdly

[bobbied]

And thirdly, More's law is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules.

Someone should come out with Leess's Law

[Anonymous Coward]

That way, you'd have the option of scrolling back to less dense chip designs.

Men with enormous egos

[Ukab the Great]

Battling for the title of who has the smallest one.