End of Moore's Law Forcing Radical Innovation

dcblogs writes "The technology industry has been coasting along on steady, predictable performance gains, as laid out by Moore's law. But stability and predictability are also the ingredients of complacency and inertia. At this stage, Moore's Law may be more analogous to golden handcuffs than to innovation. With its end in sight, systems makers and governments are being challenged to come up with new materials and architectures. The European Commission has written of a need for 'radical innovation in many computing technologies.' The U.S. National Science Foundation, in a recent budget request, said technologies such as carbon nanotube digital circuits will likely be needed, or perhaps molecular-based approaches, including biologically inspired systems. The slowdown in Moore's Law has already hit high-performance computing. Marc Snir, director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division at the Argonne National Laboratory, outlined in a series of slides the problem of going below 7nm on chips, and the lack of alternative technologies."

Re:Anonymous Coward's Law

[Anonymous Coward]

Moore's yawn ... er, law. It has ended, again again. It must be the co-joined twin of Voyager which has left the solar system 78 times in the past 14 years.
Wake me up when some real news gets in.

Re: Moore's Law isnt a law you know

[crutchy]

now now don't you go spreading propaganda that laws aint laws... next there will be idiots coming out of the woodwork claiming that einstein may have got it wrong and that it's ok to take a dump whilst being cavity searched by the police

Re:Blind ants, now need to search more branches

[crutchy]

just need to shoot more advanced alien spaceships down near roswell

Re:And best of all...

[Urkki]

We might even stop writing everything in Javascript?

Indeed. JavaScript is the assembly language of the future, and we need to stop coding in it. There already are many nicer languages which are then compiled into Javascript, ready for execution in any computing environment.

Re:Ends of Moore's Law in software ?

[freeze128]

yes more efficient and fast code would be much better

I like this guy. He doesn't stop for punctuation.

Re: 3D chips, memristors, photonics, spintronics,

[interkin3tic]

Hmm... yes good points. A bit off topic, but flying machines too are nonsense. No expert in the field sees them happening. People have been talking about flying machines, and we've had balloons for decades, but flying contraptions didn't materialize. And they don't solve any problem really that we don't already have a solution to, but do introduce new problems, like falling. The whole idea is nonsense. It's a dead end too! Ships and trains are far too cheap to ever let flying machines even be competitive. It's old and has no real potential for ever working. It's basically a scam prepetuated by some bike builders, and it's not clear it will ever be useful for any meaningful problem.

In conclusion, you're right. There's no chance of any revolutionary computing technology coming forward, and there's no chance that humans will ever fly.