Allah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoWhen can we expect 500TB drives to be available?lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square21linkfedilinkarrow-up1108arrow-down112
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minus-squareTheGrandNagus@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up122arrow-down3·2 years agoI am so tired of people, especially people who pretend to be computer experts online, completely failing to understand what Moore’s Law is. Moore’s Law != “Technology improves over time” It’s an observation that semiconductor transistor density roughly doubles every ~2 years. That’s it. It doesn’t apply to anything else. And also for the record, Moore’s Law has been dead for a long time now. Getting large transistor density improvements is hard.
minus-squareWolfLink@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoAlso the improvements in computer speed from Moore’s law were from Denard Scaling, which says with transistors 2x smaller, you can run things 2x faster but produce 2x as much heat. Heat dissipation has been the bottleneck for a long time now.
I am so tired of people, especially people who pretend to be computer experts online, completely failing to understand what Moore’s Law is.
Moore’s Law != “Technology improves over time”
It’s an observation that semiconductor transistor density roughly doubles every ~2 years. That’s it. It doesn’t apply to anything else.
And also for the record, Moore’s Law has been dead for a long time now. Getting large transistor density improvements is hard.
Also the improvements in computer speed from Moore’s law were from Denard Scaling, which says with transistors 2x smaller, you can run things 2x faster but produce 2x as much heat.
Heat dissipation has been the bottleneck for a long time now.