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Intel Says Chips To Become Slower But More Energy Efficient (thestack.com)

Posted by yaelk on from the slow-and-steady dept.

An anonymous reader writes: William Holt, Executive Vice President and General Manager of Intel's Technology and Manufacturing Group, has said at a conference that chips will become slower after industry re-tools for new technologies such as spintronics and tunneling transistors. "The best pure technology improvements we can make will bring improvements in power consumption but will reduce speed." If true, it's not just the end of Moore's Law, but a rolling back of the progress it made over the last fifty years.

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  1. This makes sense if gov is the customer by xxxJonBoyxxx · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Computer salesperson: "Hey, it's time to replace your old machines."
    Gov buyer: "Fuck off, they work just fine."
    Computer salesperson: "But these shiny new Intel models SAVE ENERGY."
    Gov buyer: "On second though we've got plenty of taxpayer money to blow on 'energy efficiency' projects. Why don't ya' put us down for half million new laptops and two million of those tablet thingies so people can plug them in next to their desktops - I mean 'replace their energy-sucking desktops' - and see if you can't find a new boat for 'my nephew' and a trip to the Caribbean for 'my travel agent' while you're at it."