On 27 Jul 2003 at 15:59, Julia Thompson wrote: > Also, how much longer will Moore's Law hold? It gets to where part of > what's making things faster is that the size of components on a chip > are shrinking; there's some finite limit to that beyond which > shrinking is impossible. Then we have to use other methods on the > same hardware to increase speed, or go in a totally different > direction with it.
Some other directions ARE being explored. For example, IBM has purely optical chips in development. I seem to remember them demonstrating one running at ~200Mhz about a year back. And there are other things as well as optic paths on motherboards, evolveware and so on. I think we're going to see things handed off more to specalist sub-CPU's and for massively enhanced bus bandwidths. Could be wrong of course, but we'll see. Andy Dawn Falcon _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
