Re: [wlug] The Death Of Moore’s Law

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 09:02:50PM +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:

From <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/01/24/death_notice_for_moores_law/>:

The computer science behind microprocessor design has therefore found itself making a rapid U-turn as it learns that its optimisation techniques can be weaponised.

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Hammered by the finance of physics and the weaponisation of optimisation, Moore’s Law has hit the wall, bounced off - and reversed direction. We’re driving backwards now: all things IT will become slower, harder and more expensive.

And the register has misrepresented Moore's law, which is a law about the number of transistors in a microprocessor, not about its performance. Cheers Michael.