RE: near-term processing power growth

From: Ramez Naam (ramezn@Exchange.Microsoft.com)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2000 - 23:36:42 MST


From: Robert J. Bradbury [mailto:bradbury@aeiveos.wa.com]
> [reference to] http://www.amd.com/news/prodpr/20054.html
>
[snip]
>
> I'll simply note that this is 10% ahead of the SIA projected clock
> rate for Y2K.
> (See: http://www.aeiveos.com/~bradbury/petaflops/siardmap.html)

Hmmm. Having now looked at these projections, I must say that they project
computing power growth decidedly slower Moore's law.

Thus, I hope we are not using the fact that we are beating SIA's sub-Moore's
law projections to argue for near term growth substantially faster than
Moore's law.



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