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[โ€“] bionicjoey 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Correction: Moore's law predicts that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would double every two years. It doesn't make predictions about computers being "faster" or able to handle a certain "workload". The only thing it predicts is the growth in physical capacity of a single chip.

And we actually broke Moore's law and this capacity growth slowed a decade ago since manufacturing techniques started being the bottleneck.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yes yes single threaded execution etc but now we just build a crap ton more and keep increasing the computational throughput per watt etc.

We've moved massive calculations into GPUs and thus in terms computational capabilities it holds up.

I mean check this out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS

The geometric growth is real. Moore's law was just one way to explain it.