which time we will see PC technology reach its limit ?

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NJ5 said:

Sqrl said:

NJ5 said:
@Sqrl: As far as I know, Moore's law says nothing about a limit in growth. It only quantifies the exponential improvement rate of chip technology.

Agreed but if we hit a fundamental particle barrier the only way to exponentially increase power is through the exponential increase in the use of existing components...that won't take too long for it to hit a cieling of practicality in terms of size.

 

Moore's "law" (I'd call it a prediction) is precisely that - that the number of transistors on CPUs doubles every 18 months. Performance improvements are just a corollary. It is sometimes stated as being about performance, but that's an altered version of his original statement.

When Moore's law can't hold anymore due to impracticality of shoving more and more transistors in the same planar integrated circuit, 3D circuits or another paradigm will take over (potentially using knowledge about smaller particles as you said).

 

Trust me as a computer electronics engineering student I've run across it dozens of times, but there really isn't any use in trying to fight the minor semantic error, especially when its used in a more muindane conversation and still gets the idea across just as well.

Also, multi-level circuits are already in use, although not widespread use. There have also been several attempts to rethink the binary approach to computing, and I'm sure most people are aware of the attempts to get a quantum computer working which has had some surprising results already.