Andy Grove Says End Of Moore's Law At Hand 520
Jack William Bell writes "Intel chief Andy Grove says Moore's Law has reached its limit. Pointing to current leaks in modern chips, he says -- "Current is becoming a major factor and a limiter on how complex we can build chips," said Grove. He said the company' engineers "just can't get rid of" power leakage. -- But, of course, this only applies to semiconductor chips, there is no guarantee that some other technology will not take over and continue the march of smaller, cheaper and faster processors. I remember people saying stuff like this years ago before MOSFET." Update: 12/11 22:01 GMT by T : Correction: the text above originally mangled Andy Grove's name as "Andy Moore."
I remember... (Score:4, Funny)
So. we'll see. I wonder if it now starts applying to graphic cards.
15% ! (Score:5, Funny)
No wonder my laptop only gets about a hour of runtime on its battery.
Great! (Score:5, Funny)
So, this means that anything that possibly can go wrong no longer will! Hey, I'm all for that!
What? Moore's Law? Oh. Nevermind.
sure sure... (Score:4, Funny)
Great! (Score:5, Funny)
Newton? (Score:5, Funny)
BTW do most of the users really need fast machines? I can do all my work without any problems on my 333Mhz PII
CU
Shucks... (Score:5, Funny)
On a related note ... (Score:3, Funny)
Intel stock goes down like 50%
RMS Goes to the Zoo (Score:0, Funny)
"That'll be twenty-five dollars, sir," the lady at the admission booth said glumly. She looked at RMS expectantly.
"I was expecting this zoo to be Free," RMS stated loudly, eyes darting around to gauge onlookers' reactions. There were none: RMS's capital F had went unnoticed. "Can you ensure me that this money will not help fund--"
The admissions lady cut him off. "Twenty-five dollars, or twenty bucks with a Mr. Pibb can," the lady cut in.
With a grumble and shake of his beard, RMS handed over twenty five of his hard-earned dollars. Considering that the GPL works to unemploy programmers, one must wonder where this money came from...
By evening, RMS found himself in front of the penguin exhibit. He felt himself start to sweat, which would have been no surprise-- his thick, full, grizzly beard must be worth a thousand down comforters-- except that he was wearing only a pair of nylon biking shorts and a travel pack around his waist. He stared at his hands. What was wrong?
"AWWWK!" a nearby bird offered. RMS wheeled in the direction the screech had come from. He was met with the steely, unfeeling stares of a penguin. "AWK! Ooooh God, the penguin said AWK... lord, lord lord, it's LINUX. THE PENGUIN IS TUX!" RMS blurted out. He felt dizzy, and cold sweat now washed over his brittle, hairy chest. He looked this way and that. From nearby a bird again squawked.
"AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWK"
RMS ran as fast as his atrophied hippy-programmer legs could carry him, right thru a gate and into an exhibit. He realized what he had done, and before he could turn around, he heard a low, ominous sound. Like the Devil's riding mower. "MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" RMS gasped.
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
He was standing in the Gnu section, and it seemed these bull yaks were in rut and ready to mate with the first hairy thing with a hole in its center they found. Bad luck for RMS and his beard. Just then he felt cloven hooves push him down...
DAMN IT! (Score:2, Funny)
Re:So, back to Don Knuth's Books? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Moore's Law (Score:4, Funny)
Moore's Law Applies to Stories Like This (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Newton? (Score:3, Funny)
Yes. Better, faster, cheaper.
>> can do all my work without any problems on my 333Mhz PII
And you could probably ride a horse to work, too. So what?
Re:Andy Moore? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Great! -Murphy (Score:3, Funny)
"If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it will."
Re:"The End" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:sure sure... (Score:2, Funny)
Breaking the law, breaking the law... (Score:4, Funny)
I expect the Feds to start handing out stiff penalties to processor manufacturers who fail to meet the law's demands.
Materials? What other materials? (Score:1, Funny)
I think they will just move away from silicon. Perhaps we have reached the limits of silicon but their is lots of research being done by acedamia and chip manufacturers on other materials.
With our 4.7 billion junction lightprocessor we haven't experienced any such limitation...
Oops, I've said too much alrea
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Re:Hmm.... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Hmm.... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Moors Law (Score:2, Funny)
Nope, sorry. That was the MOOPs
Re:Yes... -- was Re:Andy Moore? (Score:5, Funny)
Well, don't worry. I'm sure one of the crack Slashdot editors will just go in and fix... oh yeah.
This has to be a classic quote (Score:3, Funny)
Duh! Funny, I have never seen any (properly connected) microprocessor chip generating much in the way of light , sound, or X-rays. I suppose a teensy weensy amount might go off as RF emissions, but not from the DC leakage current.
Re:Andy Moore? (Score:3, Funny)
No No No No No! It's Gordon Moore's dorky brother
Andy Moore [cmu.edu]
Re:I remember... (Score:4, Funny)
*ducks*
Re:Yes... -- was Re:Andy Moore? (Score:3, Funny)
Easy Answer (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Yes... -- was Re:Andy Moore? (Score:3, Funny)
Usually when folks say "crack", they mean "elite", not as a description of what they must be smoking...