NO MOORE HEROES
Jul 23, 2020
4 minutes
Ian Evenden
Way back in 2012, you could buy a quad-core/eight thread CPU with a 3.5GHz base clock and a 3.9GHz turbo. In 2018, you could also buy a CPU with a 3.5GHz base clock and a 3.9GHz turbo, but this time it had 16 cores, and processed 32 threads simultaneously. It was a Threadripper 2950X, and was more than twice the price of 2012’s Core i7-3770K.
MOORE’S LAW HAS THE EFFECT OF DOUBLING COMPUTING PERFORMANCE EVERY TWO YEARS
What’s going on there? Shouldn’t Moore’s Law, which back in 1975 (although the concept was first thought of in 1965) stated that the number of
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