“Intel founder Gordon Moore declared half a century ago that computer power would roughly double every two years as the silicon chips powering them developed,” Cara McGoogan reports for The Telegraph.
“The maxim, which became known as Moore’s law, directed technology companies for five decades before reaching a crunch point last year. Physicists and technology giants alike said transistors had reached a point where it was no longer economically viable to make them smaller, bringing about the end of the law,” McGoogan reports. “But Intel’s chief executive Brian Krzanich has put an end to such fears with news the company will release a 10 nanometre chip in 2017. The tiny chip will be cheaper than its predecessor, Intel said, keeping Moore’s law alive.”
McGoogan reports, “‘I’ve heard the death of Moore’s law more times than anything else in my 34-year career and I’m here today to really show you and tell you that Moore’s law is alive and well and flourishing,’ Krzanich said.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Moore’s law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years.
Nanotechnology is the future. This will be the transistors successor.
I’m confused. Transistors are already fabricated on a nano scale. 10 nanometers is roughly only 50 atoms thick on a silicon wafer.
that is like saying UNIX will be used in future macOS releases
I understand what you’re saying. It could certainly be a fabrication method of the future. But we’re far from it at this point.
Moore’s Law just goes into hibernation every now and again.
It’s just resting… no, wait, pining for the fjords.
“the company will release a 10 nanometre chip in 2017.”
And when they don’t, then what? Tick tock tock… tock? 🙂
Waiting for Intel to move its ass
Never was a law. Just a hypothesis that on its face could never hold up over time. It was a nice run, but beancounters have taken over.
Nanoically speaking, less is Moore.
But Intel’s chief executive Brian Krzanich has put an end to such fears with news the company will release a 10 nanometre chip in 2017.
PROVE that Moore’s Law is alive again. That would be great! We’ll wait for the full specs and test results.
But for now, Moore’s Law damned well IS dead, as proven by Intel’s incredibly LATE and LAME releases of not just the last year, but the last THREE YEARS. 💀⚰😇
Brian Krzanich, you’ve been hearing Moore’s Law is dead because we-the-customers aren’t necessarily as technologically ignorant (techTardy) as you apparently wish we were. We clearly notice that you’re pulling a marketing-spin manoeuvre. No thank you. Just be honest and we’ll get moving along to the next CPU technology, which won’t be x86. Thank you.
Methinks the CEO is defending the lack of progress shown in his company’s new processors.