Bill Daly, Nvidia’s chief boffin as warned that Moore’s Law is in danger of dying out.
He said that the cunning plan of Intel and AMD to use serial CPUs will kill off Moore's Law which will only be saved if more people move to parallel processing, and in particular GPUs. GPUs made by greenish goblins we guess.
Daly said that for more than four decades, Moore’s Law has held true, thanks in large part to Intel first continuing to crank up the speed of its processors, and more recently by rapidly growing the number of processing cores on a single chip.
However, now Moore’s Law has reached its limit on traditional CPUs from the likes of Intel and AMD and needs a new way of doing things if it is to continue.
He thinks that energy needs for the CPUs Intel and AMD are pushing out there are creating an environment where Moore’s Law can no longer continue.
“We have reached the limit of what is possible with one or more traditional, serial central processing units, or CPUs,” Daly wrote. “It is past time for the computing industry—and everyone who relies on it for continued improvements in productivity, economic growth and social progress—to take the leap into parallel processing.”
He added that what worked in the 1980s and 1990s is not working anymore, despite what Intel officials say, and a new way of computing must be adopted.
As the demand for greater computer performance grows, the problems with the serial CPU architecture will become more apparent, and Moore’s Law will come to an end, he said. More, surely Moore, here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murphy%27s_law
Moore's Law states simply that the number of transistors may double every 18 months or so. Big deal. They will soon be doing nanometer chip processes in the order of teens. So the scale of CPUs today is such that if you replicated the transistors in the scale of the 80's the CPU die would be the size of NYC and require a glacier to cool it. This ain't gonna die. Nvidia on the other hand has shown reluctance to shrink and lower TDP. In truth, Nvnvnv has reached the limit on what it can do graphically and by bus, and is trying to cheaply cement a niche in cascading specialised maths.
After silicon, there are many new materials and techniques waiting in the gallery.
Let's not forget Tukwilla/Itanium, if nothing more than for sake of experience.
The obvious point here is that Intel knows a lot more about all machine level processing than Nvitile.
Certain tasks lend themselves to parallel, true... true.
If Nvistic want to talk turkey, let them do it in terminology like found on
https://computing.llnl.gov/tutorials/parallel_comp/
Ohterwys, quit letting their talking-heads sling mud-pies.
Computing will continue to develop along both serial and parallel paths; the nature of the tasks for which computers are used will dictate that.
And Moore's Law is not a law at all, not a consequence of our physical universe, unlike law of gravitation, it is a regression that has been extrapolated beyond belief by companies who profit by that extrapolation.
In other words, nothing to see or hear, move along, move along.