Intel discusses upcoming laptop and Atom chips, why we need more performance in mobile devices

heh: "and 140 Facebook applications, he said"

99% of them those stupid polls. About as much innovation as custom T-shirt designs - in the end, it's still a T-shirt.

"Chandrasekher talked about what Intel is doing to address these limitations starting with efforts to stay on Moore's Law, which is critical to increase the performance and reduce the power consumption of notebooks and other mobile devices. 'That sounds easy, but it?s not,' he said. 'The 45nm node and the high-k metal gate innovation were 10 years in the making.'"

He's not joking. We've already hit some fundamental limitations with heat - and IMHO it's not long before we start hitting more physical limitations. I don't think Moore's law will last my entire lifetime, and I have doubts about whether more exotic technologies can really save us. They too may only last a short time before hitting physical limitations.

Sorry, Moore's "law" is not really a law at all. There is nothing saying that it must last forever.; Posted by: CobraA1 Posted on: 07/15/09 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use