Posted on 08/06/2021 11:13:13 AM PDT by ShadowAce
The only reason it’s a “law” is because the MSM made it one. I very much doubt that Gordan Moore ever thought of it as a “law.”
Another in a long series of straw-man arguments put forward by the MSM to make themselves look clever, while showing themselves to be ignorant dip-excrements.
In 1975, eight years after leaving Fairchild to co-found Intel, Moore revised his "law", actually just an observation, to a doubling every two years.
And a headline saying his "observation" has "run itself into a cul-de-sac" looks a lot sillier than one asserting that his "law" has done so.
What technologies have shaped and created society since WWII?
The birth control pill
The atom bomb
The silicon semiconductor
OK then—how would you have written the headline, given the topic? The article is about how the current technology is running out of room to keep doubling.
Its generally thought that the next great leap forward that make all moore’s law look incremental will be quantum computing. So instead of a doubling there will be a hundred fold increase in computing power. After that the combination of quantum computing and AI will take computing to places unimagined.
Bkmk
Yup. Agreed. However, anything like that is not even in the lab yet. There are still a few steps to take between current state and that state.
One technology that has had a huge impact on society is air conditioning. Just think about how things would be if Congress took 3 months off each year.
And how big would the Phoenix metro area be with no A/C?
Moore revised his “law”, actually just an observation,
***Scientific laws are simply mathematically rigorous observations. There is a law of gravity, but no accepted theory of gravity.
intel falling behind
go long on amd
Actually, you have that backwards.
//There are still a few steps to take between current state and that state.
Well, done. I think there are at least 3 puns in that one sentence, given the subject.
Something I’ve noticed in my computers is that we’re not getting the huge improvements in speed any more. I think the silicon generally has the power, but software hasn’t really caught up. My current desktop is an I-9 with 16 cores and 32GB of memory. I really don’t see it as being significantly more powerful, except in some very specific use cases, than the 8-core I7 I had 12 years ago.
OTOH, I can crank up 6 to 8 VMs and not notice significant lag from a CPU perspective with any of them. Granted, if one of them is doing significant disk work, it’s gonna slow down disk access to the others.
Nope. Not wrong.
The law of gravity is basically things fall at 9.8m/s^2
More than two score relativistic theories of gravitation have been proposed. Some have no metric; others take the metric as fixed, not dynamic.
Only on Earth. Not the Moon, or Jupiter.
And yes--you are wrong. Gravity is, scientifically speaking, a theory.
How fast they fall on the moon, jupiter, wherever... that is an OBSERVATION, a law. Why they are attracted to each other would be the theory of gravity.
You don’t know the simple difference between a scientific law and a theory.
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