Started by Pita Taufa (@pita_t) ·
Moore's law and the end of Dennard scaling
4 sources · 26 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “is moore's law dead”
- Ended at
- Gordon Moore
The Trail
- “is moore's law dead” (google.com)
- Moore's law (en.wikipedia.org)
- Dennard scaling (en.wikipedia.org)
- Gordon Moore (en.wikipedia.org)
What I came away with
Transistor counts kept doubling for decades, but around 2005 Dennard scaling ended: smaller transistors stopped getting proportionally more power efficient, so clock speeds stalled and chips went multi-core instead.
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