On: 4.2 Gigabytes, Or: How to Draw Anything

[trention]

>I’ll hold off declaring it dead till it is well and truly dead.

The classical Moore's law formulation has been dead for 15 years already. What we have now is whataboutism about why it still holds.

[futureshock → trention]

You can draw a straight line right through this log scale plot that goes to 2020. Not sure what definition of Moores Law you are using, but it doesn’t seem to match the one on Wikipedia.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

[donkarma → futureshock]

well that is transistor count, not transitor per square centimeter which can't be measured because it is variable. the top chips are simply bigger

[futureshock → donkarma]

Here’s a chart for density. Still going strong with maybe a bit of drop off.

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Density-of-logic-transis...