Moore’s Law has run its course

Ars Technica has an interesting look at how Moore’s Law is losing its relevance and will no longer be the focus of industry plans for the future of microprocessors.

Moore’s Law originated with a 1965 prediction of Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, which gradually came to mean that the number of transistors per microchip would double every twelve months. This prediction held true for decades but has been strained in recent years.

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Jeff Rivett has worked with and written about computers since the early 1980s. His first computer was an Apple II+, built by his father and heavily customized. Jeff's writing appeared in Computist Magazine in the 1980s, and he created and sold a game utility (Ultimaker 2, reviewed in the December 1983 Washington Apple Pi Journal) to international markets during the same period. Proceeds from writing, software sales, and contract programming gigs paid his way through university, earning him a Bachelor of Science (Computer Science) degree at UWO. Jeff went on to work as a programmer, sysadmin, and manager in various industries. There's more on the About page, and on the Jeff Rivett Consulting site.

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