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vzn
vzn
2:55 AM
was led to the ee group via a question on cs.se on gates on a chip. & saw an interesting high voted question on moores law. so throwing caution to the wind asked something that have been wondering about for a few yrs:
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Q: is Moore's law slowing or plateauing?

vznhave seen some rumors that some in the chip fabrication industries or otherwise believe that Moores law could be slowing or plateauing (have one such ref & have to dig it up). looking for refs/expert opinion on possible slowdown or plateauing of Moores law. (one possible angle on this is t...

transistors integrated-circuit scaling
closed in less than 90m sigh
dontcha just luv se =|
 
 
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vzn
vzn
4:22 AM
so one is left with not much else, but seeing what the close score is! lets see
Leon Heller, St. Leonards-on-Sea, United Kingdom
29.8k 2 31 63
microcontroller pcb pic arduino soldering avr fpga
total ~50k! not bad!
but still far less than my personal highscore 83k! oh well try, try again....
 
vzn
vzn
4:58 AM
maybe was reminded of the question from this comment/question (4v)
Long ago Moore's law became not just about transistor count (it's original target) but about processing capability. In this respect Moore's law broke several years ago but people seem not to have noticed. It is getting increasingly easier to make N things than to make something N times as fast. They are pushing up against some major constraints of physics and while it is possible to make systems somewhat faster the cost is prohibitive compared to just making more cores. Consider,when did you first see a 3 GHz processor? Now, where are the 6 and 2 and 24 GhZ processors? And the flying cars :-) — Russell McMahon Jul 11 '12 at 13:55
huh... maybe asking about the slowing of moores law is like the EE equivalent of asking about peak oil?
or maybe everyone in the tech biz is actually a closet/unconscious singulatarian? :p
that ref to flying cars reminds me of one of my fave books/authors (even with some TCS angle in some chapters!)
this is great! this is giving me the idea for a blog!
robots gone wild in wilson's robopocalypse USA today 5/2011. notes that spielberg has optioned the book for upcoming movie... (!!!)
but wait! hold the press! sorry!
Robopocalypse
Robopocalypse is a New York Times best selling science fiction book by Daniel H. Wilson published on June 8, 2011. The author has a PhD in robotics from Carnegie Mellon University, and many of the robots in the novel were inspired by real-world robotics research. Sources like Robert Crais and Booklist have compared the book to the works of Michael Crichton and Robert Heinlein. Plot In the future, small groups of survivors find ways to survive without modern technology in an increasingly robot-reliant society after a computer scientist accidentally unleashes a supremely intelligent sent...
wikipedia: However, on January 9, 2013, DreamWorks revealed that Spielberg decided to postpone Robopocalypse indefinitely, citing the reason, through the director's spokesman Marvin Levy, as "too important and the script is not ready, and it's too expensive to produce. It's back to the drawing board to see what is possible." [12]
"too expensive" ?!? whoa the mighty days of $$$pielberg are over it looks! yeeks =(
 

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