IN 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore described a trend he saw in computing hardware. “Moore’s Law” indicated that the number of transistors on integrated circuits was doubling every couple of years.
(Or to put it plainly… computers will get exponentially faster).
This past week, Henry Samueli, CTO of Broadcom, indicated that that trend appeared to finally be coming to an end.
“The cost curves are kind of getting flat,” Samueli told reporters at an evening Broadcom event at the Tank18 wine bar in San Francisco’s trendy South of Market district. Instead of getting more speed, less power consumption and lower cost with each generation, chip makers now have to choose two out of three.
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