The Enchippening
If there’s one thing that keeps getting better, it’s computer chips, right?Transistors keep getting smaller, so each chip has more transistors. A chip with more transistors can do more computation in a given time. (I wrote an article in Asterisk Magazine earlier this year about what Moore’s Law means for predicting progress in AI.)But where does Moore’s Law come from, anyway? Why is our technology industry so good at making smaller and smaller chips over time? And, in general, why do some tech...
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