New Life For Moore's Law
Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore defined the tenet that the power of computer processors doubles every 18 months. “But this axiom is more a historical observation than a guarantee, and engineers had recently become increasingly skeptical about whether the rate of progress could be maintained,” wrote Alan Sipress in today’s Washington Post. That all changed Friday when, after ten years of effort, Intel announced a new 45-nanometer transistor, a microscopic switch in computer chips that is so small “more than 300 can fit in a red blood cell.”
So just in case you thought the steam was seeping out of an economy enabled by technological productivity, think again. Where do you think we will go from here?
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