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If Moore's law is truly ending as is generally believed, then it seems logically inevitable that the entire industry will flatten out and equalize. Or, I am ove
by calf 23d ago
If Moore's law is truly ending as is generally believed, then it seems logically inevitable that the entire industry will flatten out and equalize. Or, I am oversimplifying something.
- trynumber9 23d agoIn this case it's more that multiple companies (Apple, Qualcomm, MediaTek and now Xiaomi) have used the same process (N3P) to produce multiple chips with similar performance. Regardless of Moore's Law death that isn't surprising.
- calf 23d agoThat's just punting the meta which is why are companies converging on similar processes? Plausible explanation being that Moore's law exponential is going away.
- mrheosuper 23d agoIt's already flattening out. The rate of progress is much faster in 90-00s then now.
- alok-g 21d agoMoore's law is flattening, however, designs and implementations are often highly inefficient. Just like software often has bloat, so does chip design.