R.I.P. Gordon Moore, Co-Founder of Intel, inventor if Moore's Law and pioneer of the x86 CPU, one of the founding father of Silicon Valley and your childhood PCs

Mar 25, 2023 8:22 PM

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your childhood PCs would not have been possible without his contributions

thank you Gordon, for all the fun and games we continue to have with out PCs due to your inventions

he predicted that the performance of computers will practically double each year

Intel's co-founder inspired Noyce's Law, which predicted the dramatic increases of his last name following a South Park episode.

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Per the chart: 'Intel ignites the trend of personal computing'. I seem to remember that credit to the Apple Macintosh, and for good reason.

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Clever dude. That’s the law where post the wrong thing to get the right answer.

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Moores law can actually can be extended the other direction if you extend it to the Atanasoff Berry Computer in 1942 it still holds up.

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He an Intel co-founder Robert Noyce, the actual inventor of the integrated circuit, made Silicon Valley a thing

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RIP

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I'll always remember him from that Billy Idol song. "In the midnight hour, she cried Moore Moore Moore."

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He looks like the bad guy from Robocop.

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It apparently paused for a few years ~2015 while they changed fabrication techniques but is back (now doubling every two years).

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It's kind of being cheated nowadays with multiple cores instead of pushing it all on one core... And we're getting really close to the limit

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with our current designs: electrons kind of just hop around if you place the "wires" much closer than they are currently. So, even if you

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allow for multi-core and 3d placement of transistors, we're still approaching the end of it. Brilliant projection, but it is ending.

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So will OP's mom..

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Read Chip War. Pretty good rundown

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So, Moore's Law is dead then?

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Lol intel is basically dead so just about

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Crazy facts…

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There can be only one. No Moore.

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What’s with the mannequins in the top article? Was he into some weird stuff?

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I think they're sets of differenct computer labs

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What good is a computer if you can’t fuck it?!?

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He was an avid Real Doll collector

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He was Mannequin Thigh-Stalker, aka Dark Veiner

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I'm somewhat disappointed anybody upvoted this… It was terrible…

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🎶🎵...in the midnight hour, she cried Moore Moore Moore...🎶🎵"

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And in the midnight hour 2 years from now, she'll cry Moore Moore Moore Moore Moore Moore.

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But he didn't invent Cole's Law, which is shredded cabbage salad.

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Moore's the pity

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Mayo have a good day, sir!

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Have your fucking +1. You’ve earned it.

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I mean…. when you’re right, you’re right.

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What I’m the hell is that graph?? Are both axis years? How does that work?

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It's a graph of years per year, seems fairly straight forward really.

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I am a developer but only marginally adept at hardware. I thought due to limitations of silicon wafer tech, we were finally reaching a>

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a plateau till we could make quantum computing and other smaller alternatives more cost effective. Don't know but would like to know. I >

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Quatum computing is achievable at near (absolute) 0°K, No one is getting this hardware small+affordable enough for retail consumers.

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Especially when it goes directly against efficiency, environmentally-friendly needs, and a growing 1st world consumer population.

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Quantum computing may be possible for businesses + government entities, but the cost & downsides is too great for making it consumer-grade.

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on last three machines I built it was more about faster RAM, M2 fast NVME HDD, and GPUs with super fast RAM and clock speed.

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He’ll be twice as dead next year.

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This comment will be just as savage

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Or, he'll be the same amount of dead, at half the price.

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Just think of how dead he'll be in 30 years

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so ded

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2^30 dead

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🏆

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Dammit, beaten to it!

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Winner. A

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I thought he died exponentially?

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No, it was updated - he'll be twice as dead in *two* years. Read the flippin' graph!

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Exactly!

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NO - he predicted the *surface density of logic gates* will double. Not performance

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I've always been fascinated by graphene, and wondered how/when it might be used for things like this. But, I'm just a pleb, I have no idea.

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But common culture extended this to other computer metrics such as storage space, number of triangles a gfx card could render etc.

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The surface density of your left nostril will double every two years

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And every 2 years, not every year. So roughly 1.4x each year.

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His initial 1965 paper said every year, he revised it later on.

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And we have to this day roughly continued doubling the number of gates, but have long since fallen off the performance curve.

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Exactly - it's why we see 12+ cores (what else are you going to do with all that space?) but a peak of around 4-5GHz. Need a diff substrate

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Now comes quantum entanglement

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I believe it was an observation not a prediction.

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Because no sane person would believe that what was about to happen could actually happen for the next 50 years.

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Not true, physicists knew then the limits of silicon, so could project out to those limits. Question was if we could ever get there. We did

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