Some really clever people about.
Teeny, tiny state machine could BREATHE NEW LIFE into Moore's Law
A team from Harvard University and the non-profit military contractor The MITRE Corporation are claiming a miniaturisation breakthrough with what they say is the smallest finite state machine ever built. Their “nanoFSM” is, the group claims, “the densest nanoelectronic system ever built”. It comprises hundreds of transistors …
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Tuesday 28th January 2014 09:50 GMT itzman
Re: Seriously though, nice tech but what is this obsession with Moore's "Law"?
It is what drives the whole industry.
The proposition that next years code will be so bloated than only next years machines will run it ensure a smooth planned obsolescence aided by the concept that next years code will also produce data incompatible with this years code thus ensuring that users cannot hold onto machines for more than a couple of years and must continually upgrade.
Also known as MS TE
More sh**t than ever
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Wednesday 29th January 2014 10:55 GMT Cliff
Re: Seriously though, nice tech but what is this obsession with Moore's "Law"?
Moore's Law was poorly drafted but incorporated into statute in the 70's, before they realised things would have to get really teensy to fit a logarithmic progression. Originally Moore decreed that in year 1 there would be 100 transistors/square inch, year 2, 200 *and so forth*. He meant it as a linear progression so year 10 would have 1000 per square inch but some lawyer extrapolated exponentially.
Moore's second law was to always use three data points when defining a curve.
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