| KoopaKidBilly said: Moore's Law only works if the market is willing to pay for the increase. Silicon has almost been pushed to it's limits. Many of the future tech that would be used to increase the number of transistors cost to much. I read some interesting articles on this recently. http://www.slate.com/id/2132826/ or http://home.earthlink.net/~moores-law/ I think this quote sums up the idea of Moore's Law best: Moore's Law END Lies in Economics, not Physics: <6.25 Bn. Has it stalled already? (The maximum transistor count has been stuck at 1.7 billion for over a year.) The next generation of consoles will surely show improvements, maybe they will borrow an idea from PC gaming and use multiple graphics cards, a specialized Physics card, ect. |
Honestly I am not seeing where the market is going to stop supporting this continuation of minituarization all the way until they actually reach the physical limits of reality. Which isn't that far off in the grand scheme of things. The economic side of things is that there are several businesses that have huge needs for faster computers and they will drive the initial research from there its a matter of refining the process same as always. There have been doom and gloom naysayers about Moore's law for a long time and the entire time the industry has always looked ahead to the physical boundry and pretty much said "We'll meet you there...", its been going on for a while now and I haven't really seen anything that makes me think its not going to continue doing what its always done.
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