On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 01:48:40PM +1200, LizR wrote: > According to the latest Scientific American, Moore's Law stopped working > about 10 years ago. I'm not sure if or how this affects the > prognostications for AIs, mind simulation etc, though.
The only thing that stopped 10 years ago was the increase in CPU clock speed. That was never Moore's law, though, which refers to density of transistors for a given price point. That has very much continued to increase. I can now buy CPUs with 50 cores for the price of a dual core system 10 years ago. And each core has almost an order of magnitude performance improvement due to architectural improvements (eg more cache, hyperthreading, SIMD/vector instructions etc). That's about 200 x performance improvement over a decade, about double what Moore's would predict. But its all parallel computing - its not going the make Microsoft Word any less of a dog. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
