Mnementh on 20 May 2019
| fatslob-:O said: So his argument is basically boils down to better hardware is covering for software ? Why should that matter anyways if we have entire industries dedicated to making better hardware |
First of all, the age of exponential increase in power in hardware (Moores law) might be close to end. There are physical barriers we are close to hit. That means in the future new hardware could be not too much better than the one before.
Secondly, if you look into it you learn that also the complexity of hardware is increasing. Blow himself has the example of the thing the later Intel engineer said, that back then they had a phase of knowledge loss. This back then was overcome by new companies, including Intel. But these days the bugs in silicon are increasing rapidly. Operating systems like Linux load a bunch of firmware and fixes to cover for faults in silicon. So hardware has potentially the same problems as software.
