But from my link in post 14 each process layer/process step ends up costing linearly. It doesn’t seem to be any cheaper (like, at all) to make a 100-process-step wafer vs two 50-step ones.
the end is nigh
THE END IS NIGH!
The end is nigh?
It’ll be awfully strange if we achieve the physical capacity to build a computer with more logic gates than a human brain has synapses, and yet still have no idea how to wire it into an AI.
Scientists triumphantly build a computer with 1 trillion transistors and 20 trillion connections between them.
They stand back. Tah Da!
Crickets chirp. Someone finally stands up and wants to know what it can do.
Answer: It is the most powerful computer ever assembled by several orders of magnitude.
Yes, but what can it do?
Answer: I don’t know but it it kicks ass running the latest games.
Oh, that’s absolutely true. See, what we’ll need is a computer powerful enough to wire the AI (ie, imagining some sort of neural network algorithm). And that’s orders and orders of magnitude beyond.
Anyway, about Moore’s law…
looks like we’ll never get there?