It's not revolutionary. They'll keep on making transistors smaller as long as they can, but eventually they'll hit a roadblock. At that time the progress will halt until they come up with something that will steer the industry in a completely different direction (think transistors in the era of vacuum tubes).
This is very clever. I like your stance. I mean It's always going to get smaller if applicable but I wanted to know what interests you the most in modern technology today. Something that seems almost untrue to you.
i5 4670k @ 4.9GHz - Stock Heatsink - The rest is melted silicon but I think I have a graphics card in there somewhere It surprises me how many people on this forum can't read benchmarks.
Transistors will keep getting smaller, so cpu's will be more powerful considering the area they use up, also more power efficient. We won't be using small transistors forever, we will eventually find a better way to go about doing things because really, transistors is a very basic and noobish way of going about things.
Also, the evolution of technology is not linear like this:
It actually keeps on accelerating with time. Don't transistors get half as small every 2 years or something crazy like that? Pretty soon we will have 14nm chips on the market.
The reason for it being like that, put simply, is because we use todays technology to create the next.
isn't there a projected 4nm chip for 2020 or something around those lines?
Thats if you think linear.
"Real world" projections estimate that once we reach 14nm we will either come up with something new (like stacking dies or something weird), or a tech to replace the need for die sizes (think, HDD to SSD).
If they make it to Excavator. They're considering making Steamroller and stopping at that.
First of all that post is quite a few months old back when AMD looked to be on track.
We have no idea what AMD is up to ATM this could just be a delay or AMD is killing off the BD archs.
i hope AMD will keep producing, Intel has suggested that after haswell CPUS will need to be soldered to the MoBo, if AMD can hold on untill then they will get a great amount of funds.
i hope AMD will keep producing, Intel has suggested that after haswell CPUS will need to be soldered to the MoBo, if AMD can hold on untill then they will get a great amount of funds.
_Le Off topicish.
Great deal of funds from what?
The market of people who build computers is not enough to fund a company the size of AMD going.
I think the future of technology has trained dust mites making transistors.
grr... seriously...
this is a bit of an understatement.
the dustmite is around 14,000x larger than the transistor.
roughly, per-scale (if the dustmite were the size of a human), this is smaller than another (normal-sized) dust-mite compared to the first dust-mite.
conversely, for a person, at the scale of the transistor, a bacteria would be like about like a zeppelin...
and the dust-mite would be about like a walking mountain-range...
likewise, a human standing on Earth could reach up and grab the moon...
(if calculations are about right...).
(edit: and it would probably about resemble a person standing on a baseball reaching for a pinball).
or, at least, this is what I can gather by a few informal unit conversions...
EDIT/ADD: then I started thinking of all of the wackiness that would occur if time-scaling and relativistic effects were involved (hand-waving all this being effectively impossible). if it could be seen, this place would likely be very strange-looking (the normal size world being so slow as to be frozen, with a seemingly very small speed of light, and relativistic effects likely going all over the place as things move around, ...). decided not to go too much into it, since I don't really know if anyone would care.
dustmite.
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This is very clever. I like your stance. I mean It's always going to get smaller if applicable but I wanted to know what interests you the most in modern technology today. Something that seems almost untrue to you.
It surprises me how many people on this forum can't read benchmarks.
Transistors will keep getting smaller, so cpu's will be more powerful considering the area they use up, also more power efficient. We won't be using small transistors forever, we will eventually find a better way to go about doing things because really, transistors is a very basic and noobish way of going about things.
Also, the evolution of technology is not linear like this:
It actually keeps on accelerating with time. Don't transistors get half as small every 2 years or something crazy like that? Pretty soon we will have 14nm chips on the market.
The reason for it being like that, put simply, is because we use todays technology to create the next.
I think the future of technology has trained dust mites making transistors.
Ya we will see it on desktop processors AMD seems to be planning on catching Intel at 14nm with excavator.
If they make it to Excavator. They're considering making Steamroller and stopping at that.
"Real world" projections estimate that once we reach 14nm we will either come up with something new (like stacking dies or something weird), or a tech to replace the need for die sizes (think, HDD to SSD).
hahaha nice dp m8. I would do the same but its too hard to edit things into gifs.
First of all that post is quite a few months old back when AMD looked to be on track.
We have no idea what AMD is up to ATM this could just be a delay or AMD is killing off the BD archs.
_Le Off topicish.
Great deal of funds from what?
The market of people who build computers is not enough to fund a company the size of AMD going.
We already are reaching this stage. 22nm is cutting it close anyway, 14nm and etc is quantum size.
grr... seriously...
this is a bit of an understatement.
the dustmite is around 14,000x larger than the transistor.
roughly, per-scale (if the dustmite were the size of a human), this is smaller than another (normal-sized) dust-mite compared to the first dust-mite.
conversely, for a person, at the scale of the transistor, a bacteria would be like about like a zeppelin...
and the dust-mite would be about like a walking mountain-range...
likewise, a human standing on Earth could reach up and grab the moon...
(if calculations are about right...).
(edit: and it would probably about resemble a person standing on a baseball reaching for a pinball).
or, at least, this is what I can gather by a few informal unit conversions...
EDIT/ADD: then I started thinking of all of the wackiness that would occur if time-scaling and relativistic effects were involved (hand-waving all this being effectively impossible). if it could be seen, this place would likely be very strange-looking (the normal size world being so slow as to be frozen, with a seemingly very small speed of light, and relativistic effects likely going all over the place as things move around, ...). decided not to go too much into it, since I don't really know if anyone would care.
or such...