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By ⋅ November 9, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The CEO of ARM says power-efficient chips for mobile devices will move into desktops, laptops, and servers.

Companies like Apple and Samsung are the public face of the smartphone and tablet boom, but they all rely on ARM, the British company that licenses the energy-efficient processor designs required by mobile devices. Those chips were once considered significantly less powerful than the x86 processors found in desktops, laptops, and servers

The Moore’s Law Moon Shot

By ⋅ July 14, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The computer industry’s future depends on a behind-schedule technology that’s proving tough to get working.

It is seemingly a fact of life that every new generation of computing gadget will be significantly more powerful than the one before, but a looming technical roadblock threatens to undermine that.






The Moore’s Law Moon Shot

By ⋅ July 14, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The computer industry’s future depends on a behind-schedule technology that’s proving tough to get working.

It is seemingly a fact of life that every new generation of computing gadget will be significantly more powerful than the one before, but a looming technical roadblock threatens to undermine that.






Moore’s Law Over, Supercomputing “In Triage,” Says Expert

By ⋅ May 9, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

A dean of high performance computing says silicon is at the end of the line.

High Performance Computing expert Thomas Sterling would like you to know that a computing goal you’ve never heard of will probably never be reached. The reason you should care is that it means the end of Moore’s Law, which says that roughly every 18 months the amount of computing you get for a buck doubles.






Moore’s Law Lives Another Day

By ⋅ April 24, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment

The three-dimensional transistors of Intel’s new generation of chips continue the 50-year trend of faster, more tightly packed chips.

“[Gordon] Moore is my boss, and if your boss makes a law, then you’d better follow it,” says Mark Bohr, who leads Intel’s efforts to make advances in microchip design practical to manufacture. Moore’s Law, of course, was first proposed by Bohr’s boss in 1965, when Moore pointed out that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years. Remarkably, the computer industry has maintained that pace ever since, training us to expect computers to become ever faster in the process.






A New and Improved Moore’s Law

By ⋅ September 12, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Under “Koomey’s law,” it’s efficiency, not power, that doubles every year and a half or so.

Researchers have, for the first time, shown that the energy efficiency of computers doubles roughly every 18 months.






Blog – Why Isn’t the Price of Broadband Obeying Moore’s Law?

By ⋅ September 14, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

The quality and cost of broadband Internet access haven’t budged in years.

The U.S. government doesn’t keep an index of broadband internet prices by which to evaluate the success of its broadband promotion policies – the statistics they do have are mushed together with prices for dial-up access – so a couple of researchers at Northwestern University decided to build their own.






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