alt Hacker NewsMoore's Law has nothing to do with processors getting faster. Dennard scaling stopped working but Moore just slowed somewhat, not stopped.
Moore's Law has nothing to do with processors getting faster. Dennard scaling stopped working but Moore just slowed somewhat, not stopped.
You are technically correct. The best kind of correct.
However, what most people think of as Moore's Law--CPU speed doubles every 18 months--broke somewhere between 90nm and 22nm.
And even the actual Moore's Law--2x the transistors every 18 months--doesn't hold for all types of chips anymore. Memory only gained 2x density over 10 years.