50 years after birth of Moore's Law, technological developments and new concepts endanger a theory that to date has been fulfilled to the letter. Below we are going to analyze the reasons why Moore's Law will no longer be realistic from now on.
The birth of Moore's Law
It was in 1965 and more specifically on April 19 when Gordon E. Moore, One Intel founders and without a doubt also one of those responsible for the evolution of microprocessors to the present day, through observation he was aware that the number of transistors used for each microprocessor They were doubling every year.
Basically, Moore's Law is based on this, that is, that with each passing year, microprocessors would have twice as many transistors.
However, it was in 1975 when Moore updated his well-known law, indicating that this doubling of transistors would not take place every year but every two years from now on.
A law with an expiration date
And the truth is that, 51 years later and taking into account its modification, Moore's Law has been fulfilled perfectly, but it is clear that not everything lasts forever and a good example of this is the fact that we are faced with what What we can call its official death, is that from now on this pattern will no longer be fulfilled thanks to new technological advances.
We must not forget that this concept has been very important to date, and the objective of transistors is to manage the basic units of computing, which are ones and zeros, and this means that the more transistors there are, the processing capacity. will be greater.
New technological trends will kill Moore's Law
According to Nature magazine, starting next month this Moore's Law will be completely ended, and the fact is that new strategies for creating the next microprocessors They are going to change completely.
Currently, the technology used to manufacture processors is the known 14 nm, a concept that indicates the distance between the transistors. To give you an idea, 1 m would be equivalent to 1.000.000.000 nanometers, or to be able to assimilate it somewhat better, 1 mm would be the equivalent of 1.000.000 nanometers.
It must be taken into account that as we reduce the space between transistors, the heat increases considerably, which is why it is considered that a distance less than 14 nanometers would not allow heat to be dissipated conveniently.
For this reason, from now on the concept will be based on the applications of the microprocessor, that is, the microprocessors will be designed based on the use to which they will be intended, thus managing to maintain microprocessors of reduced dimensions and respecting the distance of 14 nanometers.
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