Intel Tick Tock is no more -- CPU releases to slow down as Moore's Law collapses

So, has Moore's law officially collapsed? World leading microprocessor manufacturer Intel has officially slowed the pace at which CPU's are being released, by eliminating their traditional tick tock cycle and integrating a 3rd step, meaning that you might have to wait an extra year before the 'next big thing' comes out.

Source:

http://www.engadget.com/2016/03/23/intel-eliminating-tick-to…

While Intel said that the latest 14-nanometer chips were on a "2.5 year cycle," it plans to introduce three different 10-nanometer chips yearly. With the three-step PAO, that slows the pace of innovation by effectively a third, meaning consumers will have to wait an extra year before they see significant speed improvements. The third year of a chip's life cycle will likely see smaller performance gains, giving power users and gamers — who have become critical customers — less reason to upgrade.

The new process is a direct result of the difficulty in building chips with traces that are just 20 silicon atoms wide. "We expect to lengthen the amount of time we will utilize our 14nm and our next generation 10nm process technologies, further optimizing our products and process technologies while meeting the yearly market cadence for product introductions," according to the document.

Comments

  • +7

    In 20 years they'll be selling ultrabooks with hybrid quantum computing chips for $699 at Dicknorman Koganworks but still without full HD and only 4GB of RAM. Which law is that?

    • Law of business. The low res panels are cheaper and other vendors are still using a low resolution screen.
      Besides, a lot of Windows programs still act badly with high resolution screen.

    • This video explains it really well:
      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtI5wRyHpTg

    • Yeah, my $185 phone has a higher resolution screen than my ~$1500 work laptop.

  • The point of the post says the opposite. They will have superduper HD screens and 16Pb of RAM, but the cpu will be only a few orders faster.

  • The only thing I want to do now is blaming AMD.

  • And then there is AMD "CPUs" rofl

    • They just kind off….fell off the media radar. Nothing to talk about now.

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