If Moore's Law Continued, Why Didn't Processors Get Infinitely Faster?
In short: Moore's Law kept adding transistors, but once voltage stopped shrinking and leakage grew, heat capped clock speeds, and chipmakers turned the extra transistors into cores and caches instead.
A 2:06 short film in the series “Moore's Law”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: Computer History Museum, “Cramming more components onto integrated circuits - 102770822 - CHM”; Computer History Museum (hosting a reproduction of Gordon E. Moore's article in Electronics magazine, 1965), “moores paper”; Stanford VLSI Group (CPU DB), “CPU DB - Looking At 40 Years of Processor Improvements”; IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (paper by IBM T. J. Watson Research Center authors; copy hosted on a Stanford University course page), “Design of ion-implanted MOSFET's with very small physical dimensions”; IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (paper by Robert H. Dennard et al., IBM T. J. Watson Research Center; copy hosted by UC Davis ECE), “Design of ion-implanted MOSFET's with very small physical dimensions”; IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Newsletter (Winter 2007; article by Mark Bohr, Intel Corporation), “untitled”; Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery); article by Peter J. Denning and Ted G. Lewis, posted 1 January 2017, “Exponential Laws of Computing Growth”; ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC 2004) paper by Lei He, Weiping Liao (University of California, Los Angeles) and Mircea R. Stan (University of Virginia), hosted by the University of York, “System Level Leakage Reduction Considering the Interdependence of Temperature and Leakage”; IEEE Spectrum (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); feature by David Patterson, 30 June 2010, “The Trouble With Multicore”; BBC News, “BBC NEWS | Business | Intel focuses on new 'super' chip”; Michael B. Taylor, Computer Science & Engineering Department, University of California, San Diego (DAC 2012 paper, ACM), “taylor_dark_silicon_horsemen_dac_2012.pdf”; MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (MIT IDE), “There’s plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore’s law? - MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy”.
Sources used in this film
- Computer History Museum — Cramming more components onto integrated circuits - 102770822 - CHM · View →
- Computer History Museum (hosting a reproduction of Gordon E. Moore's article in Electronics magazine, 1965) — moores paper · View →
- Stanford VLSI Group (CPU DB) — CPU DB - Looking At 40 Years of Processor Improvements · View →
- IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (paper by IBM T. J. Watson Research Center authors; copy hosted on a Stanford University course page) — Design of ion-implanted MOSFET's with very small physical dimensions · View →
- IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (paper by Robert H. Dennard et al., IBM T. J. Watson Research Center; copy hosted by UC Davis ECE) — Design of ion-implanted MOSFET's with very small physical dimensions · View →
- IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Newsletter (Winter 2007; article by Mark Bohr, Intel Corporation) — untitled · View →
- Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery); article by Peter J. Denning and Ted G. Lewis, posted 1 January 2017 — Exponential Laws of Computing Growth · View →
- ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC 2004) paper by Lei He, Weiping Liao (University of California, Los Angeles) and Mircea R. Stan (University of Virginia), hosted by the University of York — System Level Leakage Reduction Considering the Interdependence of Temperature and Leakage · View →
- IEEE Spectrum (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); feature by David Patterson, 30 June 2010 — The Trouble With Multicore · View →
- BBC News — BBC NEWS | Business | Intel focuses on new 'super' chip · View →
- Michael B. Taylor, Computer Science & Engineering Department, University of California, San Diego (DAC 2012 paper, ACM) — taylor_dark_silicon_horsemen_dac_2012.pdf · View →
- MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (MIT IDE) — There’s plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore’s law? - MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: Computer History Museum: Cramming more components onto integrated circuits - 102770822 - CHM
- Also: Computer History Museum (hosting a reproduction of Gordon E. Moore's article in Electronics magazine, April 19, 1965): moores paper
- Also: Stanford VLSI Group (CPU DB): CPU DB - Looking At 40 Years of Processor Improvements
- Also: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (paper by IBM T. J. Watson Research Center authors; copy hosted on a Stanford Unive: Design of ion-implanted MOSFET's with very small physical dimensions
- Also: IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits (paper by Robert H. Dennard et al., IBM T. J. Watson Research Center; copy hosted b: Design of ion-implanted MOSFET's with very small physical dimensions
- Also: IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Newsletter (Winter 2007), article by Mark Bohr, Intel Corporation, hosted on a Duke Un: untitled
- Also: Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery); article by Peter J. Denning and Ted G. Lewis, posted 1 : Exponential Laws of Computing Growth
- Also: ACM Design Automation Conference (DAC 2004) paper by Lei He, Weiping Liao (University of California, Los Angeles) and Mi: System Level Leakage Reduction Considering the Interdependence of Temperature and Leakage
- Also: IEEE Spectrum (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers); feature by David Patterson, 30 June 2010: The Trouble With Multicore
- Also: BBC News: BBC NEWS | Business | Intel focuses on new 'super' chip
- Also: Michael B. Taylor, Computer Science & Engineering Department, University of California, San Diego (DAC 2012 paper, ACM): taylor_dark_silicon_horsemen_dac_2012.pdf
- Also: MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy (MIT IDE): There’s plenty of room at the Top: What will drive computer performance after Moore’s law? - MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy
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