I saw this today and thought it was a very interesting article. It is about placing 100 billion transistors onto a computer chip.
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In 1965, Mr. Gordon Moore made a prediction about the pace of technological progress that proved to be quite prescient. He noticed that the number of transistors in integrated circuits roughly doubled every two years.
I try to keep up with technology like you all do, but size speed capacité is developing so fast as one comes out something replaces it
This morning looking at an apple mac chips m2 and then read about the next générations
The M6 chip will be the first built on a 2-nanometer process instead of the 3-nanometer process that Apple has used for the last several chip generations. Rumors suggest Apple will use TSMC’s N2 process. Compared to the 3nm process, the 2nm process cuts down on transistor size so more can be packaged on a chip. Decreases in node size typically bring improved processor speeds and better power efficiency.
Not so long ago we were raving over the move to never saw the 186 (went away too quick to buy any) 286, then 386, (i had just set up a classroom equipped with 12) then 486 came so quickly to replace them
If asked tomorrow what would I buy not sure I am capable of answering any more.
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We have reached some limits. The 3-4Ghz barrier is still with us . We are circumventing it with multiple processors and cacheing tricks.
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