So this is somewhat old news but noticed it wasn't posted or talked about here in torn. About 5 years ago IBM started to do research into typing to make the first 7nm CPU chip, at the time 14nm was the smallest. During the 5 year process they created a 9nm chip out of carbon nano tubes however they recently developed the first 7nm chip which means that moores law is still in full effect which is wonderful news
just so you have perspective 1 red blood cell is 7,500 nm across and a stand of DNA is about 3nm across.
That's amazing. I heard about these things on a silly conspiracy theory video I seen. Amazing things. The nutters were convinced the government was releasing them into the atmosphere for us to inhale and then they could control our health. Lol
It really is amazing, there were fears at moores law was at an end but this has giving life for it to continue - it should give more power to computing while using less power - a great win win overall, I'll be interested at how much these CPUs would cost when the high end i7 ivy/hardwell at 22nm
and I don't really see them being held back, some companies like apply who make devices perhaps but just tech in general I can't imagine that being the case because if it's not IBM then it's HP and if it's not HP then it's just one more of these huge tech companies - they'll race to make them and then they'll have the rights to sell them to companies like apple ^_^
Moores Law is kind of dead for GPUs though, there have been no real node changes in like 3 years.
Moores Law will end for CPUs as well soon, its getting really expensive now to shrink and something else needs to replace the way were making CPU/GPU tech.
DEFINITION of 'Moore's Law' An observation made by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965. He noticed that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since their invention.
When it was first stated it was directly aimed towards CPUs is more what i'm meaning. Where as a CPU is quadcore, octo core etc a GPU tends to be thousands of cores which makes it a tad redundant and more of a reason why it hasn't had much progress via moore's law