[extropy-chat] A slow down in Moore's law?

[Spike]

> To: Kevin Freels; ExI chat list
> Subject: Re: [extropy-chat] A slow down in Moore's law?
> 
> >So would you say that processing speeds are still doubling 
> >every 18 months even though clock speeds are not?...


If you look at GIMPS, processor performance is
cooking right along at a factor of 2 every 1.5
yrs or so.  We made a big hootnanny when it
broke the trillion flops threshold about summer of
2000.  Now its about to break thru 20 teraflops.

Ahhhhh life is gooooood...  {8-D

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