"...even Moore himself hasn't been consistent about what it means -- and the parts most often attributed to Moore aren't accurate at all....the original statement from Moore was about doubling every 12 months, and he was the one who later revised it to two years....The specifics of Moore's Law have long since lost their significance."
You're right. I thought it was tied to component density for a single CPU (core), but it's just number of components on a chip (not even a CPU chip). So I guess a more cores you're not using on a single chip at the same-old-density qualifies as Moore's Law improvement.
Got a 5-10GHz CPU on your desk? Read anything recent from AMD and Intel, and you'll find they're praying for developers to save them by making use of multiple independent CPUs. That's not more Moore's Law advancing anymore than a huge Beowolf cluster or render farm is.
"The scare over global warming... carefully ignores the latest US satellite figures showing temperatures having fallen since 1998, declining in 2007 to a 1983 level - not to mention the newly revised figures for US surface temperatures showing that the 1930s had four of the 10 warmest years of the past century, with the hottest year of all being not 1998, as was previously claimed, but 1934."
As another poster said, it's become PC to tack on "global warming" to proposals in hopes of getting funding.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20070918/184633.shtml
"...even Moore himself hasn't been consistent about what it means -- and the parts most often attributed to Moore aren't accurate at all. ...the original statement from Moore was about doubling every 12 months, and he was the one who later revised it to two years....The specifics of Moore's Law have long since lost their significance."
You're right. I thought it was tied to component density for a single CPU (core), but it's just number of components on a chip (not even a CPU chip). So I guess a more cores you're not using on a single chip at the same-old-density qualifies as Moore's Law improvement.
Moore's Law is dead. Where have you been?
Got a 5-10GHz CPU on your desk? Read anything recent from AMD and Intel, and you'll find they're praying for developers to save them by making use of multiple independent CPUs. That's not more Moore's Law advancing anymore than a huge Beowolf cluster or render farm is.
Maybe. Maybe not:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/25/nbook125.xml
"The scare over global warming... carefully ignores the latest US satellite figures showing temperatures having fallen since 1998, declining in 2007 to a 1983 level - not to mention the newly revised figures for US surface temperatures showing that the 1930s had four of the 10 warmest years of the past century, with the hottest year of all being not 1998, as was previously claimed, but 1934."
As another poster said, it's become PC to tack on "global warming" to proposals in hopes of getting funding.