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

Posted by yaelk on Friday February 5, 2016 @07:06AM 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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Re:Better transistors? by __aaclcg7560 · 2016-02-05 07:15 · Score: 5, Funny

Probably not. Going beyond 5Ghz limit has been a problem for the last decade or so. This is why we have multicore processors. It's easier to add more cores than go to plaid.