It'll only top out when Moore's law does.. which I think is a long way off!
I know what you mean about Moore's law and processor speed, but it's deceiving.. Moore's law has continued unabated, and what used to manifest as a speed up has now, temporarily, spread laterally in # of cores. GPUs follow this as well, but because more cores = more speed, GPU speeds have more than doubled every year. I do think that sometime in the next 10 years we'll see a dramatic jump in processor speeds to 20 GHz or even 100 GHz or more, as various technologies come into play.. and so looking at a line of proc speeds over time, you'll see, if anything, Moore's law accelerating. 'Course, we'll only know if I'm right when it happens!
Best buy has lousy prices.. you can get multiple 15000 MB hard drives for $100.
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Date: Sunday, 21 March 2010 16:46 (UTC)I know what you mean about Moore's law and processor speed, but it's deceiving.. Moore's law has continued unabated, and what used to manifest as a speed up has now, temporarily, spread laterally in # of cores. GPUs follow this as well, but because more cores = more speed, GPU speeds have more than doubled every year. I do think that sometime in the next 10 years we'll see a dramatic jump in processor speeds to 20 GHz or even 100 GHz or more, as various technologies come into play.. and so looking at a line of proc speeds over time, you'll see, if anything, Moore's law accelerating. 'Course, we'll only know if I'm right when it happens!
Best buy has lousy prices.. you can get multiple 15000 MB hard drives for $100.