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The End of Moore’s Law<\/h4>\n

By Leo Notenboom<\/p>\n

Processors are not getting faster as quickly as they once did – but they are still improving.–PC Pitstop<\/i><\/font>.<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n

CPUs may not be getting faster as quickly as they once did, but Moore’s law isn’t really about speed; it’s about circuitry. We’re still improving in many other ways.<\/p>\n

My current computer is about 8 months old. It\u2019s still being sold at Best Buy as new computer for about the same price. Also, many of the other models are about the same as mine. Nothing like this was around a decade ago. Is Moore\u2019s law finished? Have we hit a barrier in new computers for speed? Or is it market forces that are simply responding to good enough computing?
\nMoore\u2019s Law is often inaccurately quoted as saying that computer speeds double every set number of years. In reality, what Gordon Moore observed some years ago is that the number of transistors that can be packed on to a single chip was doubling roughly every two years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now I can\u2019t tell you whether that still holds true. There are certainly physical limitations manufacturers must be encountering at some point, but some other interesting things have been happening as well.<\/p>\n

Article Continued Here<\/a><\/h3>\n

This excerpt appears with permission from Leo Notenboom<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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