FAQ: Forty years of Moore's Law

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will die in less than 5 years. Each new "level" of Moore's Law costs the industry moore and moore This will become cost prohibative at the <40nm process. So 90nm -> 65nm -> 40nm -> STOP. I'm sure that in research, InHell will get a 25nm process to work, but they will not be able to bring it to production. At this point, InHell will STILL be the winner, since the Itanium architecture is maximal - and they have copyrighted and patented it.

There may be breakthroughs in OTHER technologies that would allow for faster chips (carbon nanotubes), but the manufacturing processes have not caught up. Moore's Law will probably slow to "double" the "speed" of chips every 8 years . . .

Posted by: Roger Ramjet   Posted on: 04/01/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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