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old_adage t1_it3g648 wrote

Reply to comment by nezeta in The End of Moore’s Law: Silicon computer chips are nearing the limit of their processing capacity. But is this necessarily an issue? Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies by CPHfuturesstudies

Moore's law has ended for the definition of "computer power per dollar": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLOPS#Cost_of_computing

I work at a large service provider. Before 2016ish, compute costs were largely irrelevant since each hardware generation would make any investment in software or hardware optimization in the previous generation moot - resource consumption and compute costs were both increasing exponentially.

This is no longer the case: now we have major investments in software and workload-specific hardware to keep costs linear while handling exponential resource consumption.

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