Re:Moore's Law is Dying (Score 1)

I see people are taking me too literally. MMX/SSE aside, Intel has always increased clock speed by increasing the transistor count on their chips. All of this is pretty much moot anyway for the simple reason that although the 18-month transistor/speed doubling rule has remained constant, R&D budgets have doubled at exactly the same rate. Eventually, there simply won't be enough money to perform this kind of magic without dumping the whole x86/CISC architecture.