{"id":86123,"date":"2016-02-11T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T09:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=86123"},"modified":"2016-02-11T11:08:44","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T09:08:44","slug":"moores-law-has-died-at-the-age-of-51","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/86123-moores-law-has-died-at-the-age-of-51","title":{"rendered":"Moore’s law has died at the age of 51"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moore\u2019s law has \u201cdied at the age of 51\u201d, according to a report by Ars Technica<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Gordon Moore, an\u00a0Intel co-founder, made an observation in 1965 that the number of components in integrated circuits was doubling roughly every 12 months.<\/p>\n

This became known as Moore\u2019s law, which was used by the\u00a0silicon chip industry as a target to be achieved.<\/p>\n

Problems with the formulation of Moore\u2019s law became apparent early on, stated the report.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 1975, Moore updated the law to have a doubling time of 24 months rather than the initial 12. Still, for three decades, simple geometric scaling enabled steady shrinks and conformed with Moore\u2019s prediction,\u201d said Ars Technica.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the 2000s, it was clear that this geometric scaling was at an end,\u00a0but various technical measures were devised to keep pace of the Moore\u2019s law curves.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2016, though, it appears that Moore\u2019s law is at an end \u2013 as the costs of making even smaller chips and the problems associated with power dissipation see the law faltering.<\/p>\n

The use of\u00a0alternative materials, quantum effects, and more exotic techniques will be required to keep up with the \u201ceasy scaling\u201d that was seen over the recent decades, said Ars Technica.<\/p>\n

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This article originally appeared on MyBroadband<\/a> and is republished with permission.<\/h4>\n

Hardware news<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Intel to stop non-K Skylake CPUs from overclocking<\/a><\/p>\n

Cheap USB Type-C cables may kill your PC: avoid them<\/a><\/p>\n

AMD demonstrates its 12 TFLOP dual-GPU monster, the Fury X2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Intel co-founder, Gordon Moore, made an observation about integrated circuitry in 1965, called Moore’s Law. At the age of 51, Moore’s Law has been laid to rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":86125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[17249,1085,17247,1969,17251],"class_list":["post-86123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-gordon-moore","tag-hardware-2","tag-moores-law","tag-news-2","tag-silicon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86123"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86123\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}