ARM claims that performance per watt is the new Moore’s Law
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ARM claims what is watt

A new article on the ARM Blueprint blog claims that Moore’s Law is rather old hat and the new black will be the performance per watt.

Moore's Law can last two more generations
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Wednesday, 22 November 2017 13:03

Moore's Law can last two more generations


MediaTek chair sees bottlenecks ahead

Moore's Law may continue for two more generations as manufacturers hit problems advancing to 3nm node from the existing 7nm and future 5nm nodes, according to MediaTek’s boss.

Moore's Law is murdered, claims Nvidia boss
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Wednesday, 27 September 2017 11:07

Moore's Law is murdered, claims Nvidia boss


GPU computing did it in the library with the candlestick

Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang has said that GPU computing following the decline of the CPU era has killed off Moore's Law.

A look at carbon nanotubes and opto-electronics in chip design
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Process node scaling is becoming very expensive


Carbon nanotubes have long been proposed as a significant substrate replacement to transform the chip design industry as we know it.

Transistors will stop shrinking in five years
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 ITRS gives up

Transistors will stop shrinking in just five years according to the  2015 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors.

Intel talks about getting back to Moore's Law
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Back to advancing every two years

Chipzilla has been explaining how it hopes to claw back the missing six months which it lost in chip development and return to Moore’s Law increases of every two years.

Intel looks to tunnelling transistors and spintronics
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Who needs speed?


Chipzilla is looking at tunnelling transistors and spintronics and slowly rejecting the need for speed.

Intel catching up with Moore’s Law again
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Wednesday, 25 November 2015 13:54

Intel catching up with Moore’s Law again


Bill Holt's pledge


Intel has admitted that it has fallen behind Moore's law, at least temporarily but thinks it will catch up soon.

Moore's Law did not turn 50 over the weekend
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But I nearly am damnit 

While the press is banging on about Moore's Law turning 50 over the weekend, like many things in the US press, it is completely wrong.