this post was submitted on 21 Mar 2024
32 points (86.4% liked)

Programming

17450 readers
92 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Rules

  • Follow the programming.dev instance rules
  • Keep content related to programming in some way
  • If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities [email protected]

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
32
Moore's Law is dead, but not for the reasons everyone says (wumpus-cave.net)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
8 comments fedilink hide all child comments
top 8 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Link hath broken, buckaroo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

When using Summit, the hits against the server are GET /api/v3/post?id=2024 and GET /api/v3/comment/list?max_depth=6&post_id=2024&sort=Top&type_=All. From what I can tell, those are both Lemmy REST API calls. Not sure why it's trying to call it that way.

Desktop link works fine on my instance.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

It's weird. It works in my desktop browser, and on mobile when I copy the link into the browser. It does not work in my Lemmy mobile app (Summit). Not sure what's going on there.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

In short, the death of Moore's Law is about the end of economic scaling of transistors. Packing more transistors on a chip does not save you money like it use to. This contradicts the point of Moore's Law.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

So its not about transistor being too small that the electron just jumps from one circuit to another unintentionally?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That might be a contributing factor, but the main reason comes down to cost. Moore's Law originally stated that the cost per integrated component would be cut in half every year. The timeframe was variously adjusted to 24 months or 18 months, but however you want to run the numbers, the cost has not kept up. Starting from the Intel 8008, we're now a few orders of magnitude behind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Link is broken.