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Moore's Law
5 facts from 5 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2022
The host says a smartphone with about a million times the computing power of a 1990 PC costs $200, and over 6 billion people own one.
“a smartphone with, you know, literally a million times of the computing power costs $200, which is one-tenth the cost, and over 6 billion people have one.”
Acquired · The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories, 0:12:45
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Jensen Huang says Moore's law in its earlier days increased performance tenfold every five years and a hundredfold every ten years.
“Moore's law in in the older days would increase performance by a factor of ten every five years, and a factor of a hundred every ten years.”
Jensen Huang · Nvidia’s CEO On What It Takes To Run An A.I.-Led Company Now, 0:17:59
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Matt Garman argued that people once thought chips could not shrink below about 10 nanometers, yet 3 nanometer chips are now being built, so scaling limits can be overcome by new techniques.
“I remember it somewhere around 10 nanometers, people were like, I don't think you can get past this. And now we're building 3 nanometer chips, right?”
Matt Garman · Why CEO Matt Garman is willing to bet AWS on AI, 0:55:45
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Arvind Krishna describes Moore's law as a doubling of what chips can do every two years.
“That was the beginning of Moore's law, really, right? Every two years you get a two x advantage in what you can do.”
Arvind Krishna · IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says there is no AI bubble after all, 0:15:11
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Jensen Huang says Moore's law would have improved computing about 100 times in ten years, versus a million-fold gain Nvidia achieved.
“And so in the last ten years, Moore's law would have progressed computing about a hundred times in the last ten years.”
Jensen Huang · #494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution, 0:44:01