Re: Moore's `Law' still on track to 2005

From: Phil Blake (phil@ns2.tcp.net.au)
Date: Mon Dec 11 2000 - 19:38:08 MST


>Santa Clara, California-based Intel said its technology will
>enable the
>creation of $1,500 computers that operate at 10 billion cycles
>a second
>(10 gigahertz), power that is comparable to mainframe machines
>that cost millions of dollars.

I was reading that the P4 running at 2GHz actually got as much done
as the P3 running at 1GHz.

Is Moores Law just based on the speed of the clock or does it tie in
with performance?



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