XPost: comp.os.linux.misc, alt.politics, alt.economy   
   XPost: talk.politics.misc   
   From: commodorejohn@gmail.com   
      
   On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 13:01:01 +0000   
   The Natural Philosopher  wrote:   
      
   > However fabrication limits are getting stuck at 10nm and below,  and   
   > clock speeds are stuck at a few GHz which means that the   
   > power-performance ratio is pretty much the same for Intel and ARM   
   > architectures. Only by having fewer transistors and implicitly doing   
   > less, can the power be reduced.   
   >   
   > I.e. Moore's law has basically stopped representing reality. And ARM   
   > is no longer fantastic power performance compared with Intel. Its one   
   > advantage is it doesn't have to support a legacy architecture. And so   
   > its probably cheaper and less buggy.   
      
   I've long held that necessity will ultimately force a serious rethink of   
   programming practices w.r.t. resource-efficiency once Moore's Law runs   
   afoul of pesky real-world physics principles, i.e. "eighteen inches is a   
   nanosecond" vs. "you can't cram an arbitrary amount of stuff into a   
   finite space without creating a black hole." Gonna be real interesting   
   when we finally hit the wall.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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