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Moore's Law is a Farce, Says Intel Video


Did you ever think that Gordon Moore's famous law was just a clever way to impress PC buyers every two years? Watch here as young Gordy Moore cuts right to the chase and invents the 45nm Penryn chip at his kitchen table by mixing a pinch of chips, a dash of metal gates, a dollop of hafnium, and the sweet, malty deliciousness of Core 45. If this footage is real, why was I forced to grow up with a 486 chip?

10:09 AM on Thu Dec 13 2007
By Benny Goldman
2,759 views, 19 comments

Latest by drsmith: ok, but it begs the question: Is Intel one of your sponsors? In an age where product placement passes for entertainment, one has to question what they see and why they see it. This video doesn't strike me as anything more »

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Intel Chips 1971 to 2007, Plus a Timeline of the Transistor's 60 Years

As promised, here are stats for 20 different Intel chips from the past 35 years, most of which I included briefly in the Moore's Law video I made earlier, along with bonus factual tidbits I came across while looking over some Intel stuff today. Here you can enjoy it at your own pace (and without the music that some of you found not to your liking), but sadly the pics are not in any particular order, thanks to the way we serve up Flickr galleries. Enjoy it, but remember, it's only Intel's side of the story. Perhaps AMD would be kind enough to shoot over a similar dossier of fun facts. After the chip gallery is a timeline of transistor-related happenings from 1947 up to today. More »

7:00 PM on Mon Dec 10 2007
By Wilson Rothman
24,757 views, 18 comments

Latest by OtakuboyT: Oh 486 how I miss thee... more »

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Gizmodo's Video Salute to Moore's Law

This week, the transistor turns 60, and to celebrate, we decided to take an animated look at Moore's law from the early 1970s to today. Here's you'll see most of Intel's major chip lines, the year they were first introduced and the number of transistors they could support. Watch the numbers go up and up and up, and notice how the chips seem to get more and more colorful along the way. Ahhh, progress! (If you want to see the chip snapshots in gallery form, click here.) More »

2:28 PM on Mon Dec 10 2007
By Wilson Rothman
23,157 views, 36 comments

Latest by Corion: @gizak: Was expecting that musical choice myself. Heh. more »

Gordon Moore, the mind behind Moore's Law, predicts his law of doubling processor transistors every two years will be proven wrong in about 10 years. Apparently, there's only so much room on a processor and so small you can make a transistor before you run out of space. [I4U]

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Moore's Law Rescuscitated by New Intel Chip Tech

Intel and IBM have independently developed new ways to make transistors, keeping Moore's Law going for at least two more generations of chips—down to 22 nm. Both methods involve new insulators made out of hafnium, which can be made thicker to reduce current leakage without reducing the electric charge. More »

10:30 AM on Sat Jan 27 2007
By Matt Buchanan
1,769 views, 13 comments

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Small Circuit Opens Big Possibilities

Nanoscience takes one more step forward as the first single-molecule computer circuit was just built by United States researchers. Take a look at the picture here and you'll see the circuit which is so tiny it measures less than a fifth of the width of a human hair. It was assembled on a single carbon nanotube, and even though it can only achieve a poky speed of 50MHz, that's 100,000 times faster than any other devices that have ever been made with carbon nanotubes. More »

1:55 PM on Fri Mar 24 2006
By Charlie White
235 views, 5 comments

Latest by quen: For those who've missed it, no you can't build a supercomputer or an Amiga out of this. The device shown is actually just a very simple circuit with 12 transistors in. All it can do at that 50MHz clock speed more »

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Moore's Law for Razor Blades: 14 Blades by 2100

Those of you who did a spit-take when Gillette announced their five blade Fusion razor last year because you remembered The Onion predicting it would happen from the year before, you should appreciate that someone at The Economist not only wondered whether or not there was a Moore's Law for razor blades but actually worked on the graph you see to the right. If the (admittedly few) five data points we have hold, we should be shaving ourselves with fourteen blades by the 2100. More »

6:25 PM on Mon Mar 20 2006
By gizmodo.com
3,331 views, 21 comments

Latest by Z: Reduce the width of a Fusion by 3, independently spring each one and voila, 15 blade head! more »