Tag: Free Lunch Is Over

• Have we reached “peak silicon” and what can we do about it?

  Moore’s Law states that the number of transistors that can be squeezed into a given slice of silicon doubles every two years (or 18 months) – something I wrote about recently and where I declared “More transistors means greater speed, more and cheaper memory and so on … ” Except, maybe not. As the graph…

  Adrian McMenamin

  February 3, 2012

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  Algorithm, Amdahl’s law, Clock rate, complexity classes, dark silicon, Fast Fourier transform, Free Lunch Is Over, Moore’s Law, P==NP, Parallel computing, peak silicon, quantum computing