Moore Law Grand Finale
April 18, 2021

Moore’s Law gave the technology industry decades of compounding capability and business growth. As that automatic scaling reaches its finale, the next era shifts from smaller transistors to better organization across many computing elements.

Brian Greenforest spent three decades preparing for that turn through distributed, parallel, and concurrent computing.

Growth Moves From Density to Architecture

Apple, Google, Facebook, IBM, AMD, Nvidia, HP, Qualcomm, Intel, TSMC, Microsoft, and the rest of the industry built products around generations of faster, denser silicon.

When one device no longer delivers the next easy multiplier, architecture becomes the growth engine. Locality, communication, reconfiguration, specialization, and software structure determine what the next generation can accomplish.

The Parallel Era Creates a New Industry

FPGAs, chiplets, accelerators, distributed runtimes, and new programming models can turn abundant components into coherent machines. The opportunity reaches from data centers to embedded systems and programmable matter.

Founders, chip designers, and software architects can build for this transition now. The grand finale of one scaling law opens the first act of a much larger architectural era.

Originally posted on LinkedIn

Brian Greenforest · (2021-04-18 17:28:27 UTC)

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Opinion | Moore's Law Grand Finale If you're business founder, you know... You have to grow. All successful businesses are based on growth. Apple, Google, Facebook, IBM, AMD, Nvidia, HP, Qualcomm, Intel, TSMC, Microsoft. All depend on the unimpeded pace of the Moore's Law. What happening RIGHT NOW in the industry of technology all around the world is we seem to hit the hard bottom FINALLY! I was waiting for this moment to come my entire career for 30 years, dedicating research in distributed parallel and concurrent computing. It is happpening. Right now. Next 10-20 years will be REAL FUN. I advice you to buy popcorn and widen open your eyes. Have fun! 😍