Moore's Law

From: J Corbally (icorb@indigo.ie)
Date: Tue Jun 12 2001 - 13:02:35 MDT


>Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 16:21:53 -0400
>From: "John Clark" <jonkc@worldnet.att.net>
>Subject: Moore's Law
>I found something about Intel's announcement yesterday at the Kyoto
>conference
>about tiny transistors that I was talking about on the net.
>http://www.eet.com/story/OEG20010611S0109
>John K Clark jonkc@att.net
>Intel crafts transistor with 20-nm gate length.url

A few years ago, Intel predicted we'd have 10GHz PCs by 2014. Not only is
that time now halved, they've also doubled the speed. Combined with IBM's
announcement of advances in "strained silicon", even the above prediction
may be conservative.

More and more I'm thinking of my own machine not as a 933MHz system, but as
a 0.9GHz one.

Oh well, at least it was free.

James....

"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and
crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures
to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
-Q, Star Trek:TNG episode 'Q Who'



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