Comment by zamadatix
3 years ago
Moore's Law is about a relation of the number of transistors in a given cost chip, not just their size. Whether they have 1 core vs 4096 or whether the chip is 1 mm^2 vs1000 mm^2 doesn't really matter in terms of the law.
That said, I think the trend of transistor growth at a given cost has started to slow according to most graphs.
>Whether they have 1 core or 4096 doesn't really matter.
It does however matter to the looser Moore's law expectations, which were about increased speed. Now this happens only for more parallelizable programs, as opposed to the automatic speed increase bumps programs got from Moore's law in the single-core eras...