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Moore’s Law, More Horses, Less Chaff

By Nick Hodge | January 27, 2007

A major change in the fab­ric­a­tion pro­cess, chan­ging a 40+ year old pro­cess to make trans­it­ors that are 45 nano-meters large/small. At this level, atoms become significant.

Scoble has released a new video detail­ing the new 45nm pro­cess at Intel. What does this mean? Two things: Moore’s Law still applies, and there are going to be more speed using way less power in your PC some­time in 2008. Oh, and they’re already onto devel­op­ment work of the next 32nm pro­cess.

On a sim­ilar topic, Andrew sent me a link from some crazy Itali­ans who have over­clocked a Pen­tium to 8Ghz.

OK, so we’ve got the hard­ware pro­cessing for the next couple of years sor­ted. What are we going to do with this power? Intel is not just mak­ing pro­cessors and ship­ping across the river to Google (although I am sure Google will be pleased they don’t have to make a Fusion Reactor to power their singularity).

There are two emer­ging rules of the last 30+ years: don’t bet against Moore’s Law, or against the Internet.

Do we really just need faster HTML ren­der­ing and video? Herein lies the fun — soft­ware. There’s a myriad of unsolved soft­ware prob­lems — time to get back onto the horse.

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