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End of Moore's Law Forcing Radical Innovation
dcblogs writes "The technology industry has been coasting along on steady, predictable performance gains, as laid out by Moore's law. But stability and predictability are also the ingredients of complacency and inertia. At this stage, Moore's Law may be more analogous to golden handcuffs than to innovation. With its end in sight, systems makers and governments are being challenged to come up with new materials and architectures. The European Commission has written of a need for 'radical innovation in many computing technologies.' The U.S. National Science Foundation, in a recent budget request, said technologies such as carbon nanotube digital circuits will likely be needed, or perhaps molecular-based approaches, including biologically inspired systems. The slowdown in Moore's Law has already hit high-performance computing. Marc Snir, director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at the Argonne National Laboratory, outlined in a series of slides the problem of going below 7nm on chips, and the lack of alternative technologies."
Moore's yawn ... er, law. It has ended, again again. It must be the co-joined twin of Voyager which has left the solar system 78 times in the past 14 years.
Wake me up when some real news gets in.
just need to shoot more advanced alien spaceships down near roswell
We might even stop writing everything in Javascript?
Indeed. JavaScript is the assembly language of the future, and we need to stop coding in it. There already are many nicer languages which are then compiled into Javascript, ready for execution in any computing environment.
I like this guy. He doesn't stop for punctuation.