3 Ghz chips have been around for years now. I guess there must be major obstacles to getting 4+ Ghz.
So as to keep Moore's law, Intel and AMD are moving sideways and adding more cores, this is good, but faster cores would be better. The multi-tasking is improved but if you have a decent scheduler (aka Linux or mac(bastardised unix) ) then this isn't a problem.
How many people know how to write multi-threaded programs? It's difficult even within a good framework. Many software vendors are going to have to redesign the internals of their programs if they want to keep up.
Moore's law stays for now....but I bet most vendors would rather faster single cores.
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Moore's law moves sideways #
Posted Wednesday 5th December 2007 13:42 GMT
3 Ghz chips have been around for years now. I guess there must be major obstacles to getting 4+ Ghz.
So as to keep Moore's law, Intel and AMD are moving sideways and adding more cores, this is good, but faster cores would be better. The multi-tasking is improved but if you have a decent scheduler (aka Linux or mac(bastardised unix) ) then this isn't a problem.
How many people know how to write multi-threaded programs? It's difficult even within a good framework. Many software vendors are going to have to redesign the internals of their programs if they want to keep up.
Moore's law stays for now....but I bet most vendors would rather faster single cores.
Anonymous Coward
RE : Moore's law moves sideways #
Posted Thursday 6th December 2007 01:27 GMT
How come you say Mac OS is a bastardized UNIX ? As of Leopard, Mac OS /is/ a bona fide UNIX variant !
http://www.opengroup.org/comm/press/19-2-nov07.htm
James
RE : Moore's law moves sideways #
Posted Thursday 6th December 2007 09:54 GMT
As far as I understand Moores Law predicts the cost of components (transistors) on an IC not the clock frequency or anything else.
André Marques
So... #
Posted Thursday 6th December 2007 09:54 GMT
My Santa Rosa Clevo M570RU would gladly accept a T9500 to replace his T7300, right?