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Re: Power 7 CPU - 8 cores
« on: September 02, 2012, 03:39:51 PM »
"Moore's Law is boned in the long run anyway"

I don't think computational power is in any danger of peaking anytime soon.
It will just be moved to more multiprocessor tech.

Maybe the # of cores will begin to double every 2 years instead of computational speed of each core. Its still doubling processor power.

8 and 16 core desktops will be commonplace soon enough. But yes, this will just lead to less and less efficient software I think.
 

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Re: Power 7 CPU - 8 cores
« Reply #1 on: September 07, 2012, 03:23:09 PM »
So just make the chips bigger... I don't see a problem with that. Make the chip the size of current motherboards for all I care... Just make faster chips, whatever it takes. :laugh1: