From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky (sentience@pobox.com)
Date: Sun Jun 10 2001 - 09:32:20 MDT
John Clark wrote:
>
> In another development IBM said they found that if they put a
> physical strain on silicon they can increase the speed of chips by
> 35% even if you don't make them smaller. The process is not difficult
> and the company will start selling such chips in two years.
I read about that, and my first reaction was "Cool", and my second
reaction was "This is only seven months worth of Moore's Law." One has to
put such developments in perspective. A 35% improvement is really only 1%
of forty doublings, after all. Thus the headline should really be:
"IBM announces 1% improvement in chip technology; science leaps ahead
seven months."
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Eliezer S. Yudkowsky http://singinst.org/
Research Fellow, Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence
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