FarleShadow said:
Lawlhat said:
I wouldn't really flaunt reaching the end of Moore's Law. It has economic implications.
You know, the one thing I never understood about Moore's law (Double performance every 2 years) was that if we do reach the end of Moore's law, in terms of an extremely cheap, extremely tiny chip doing extreme calculations, why nobody suggested that the uberchip be complimented by
another uberchip sitting nearby?
Good question. You're right that Moore's law is often loosely stated as "double performance every 18 months", but a more precise version that deals with your question is "double the density of transistors on processors every 18 months."
So it says that now you can fit 2x transistors in the same space that you could fit only x transistors 18 months ago. Reaching the end of Moore's law would mean not being able to make the transistors any smaller (increasing the size of the whole chip as you suggest is an option in theory, but raises all kinds of issues with heat, power, internal and external couplings, manufacture, etc that would need to be solved).