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Jim Keller: Moore’s Law, Microprocessors, Abstractions, and First Principles

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The Next 10 or 20 Years of Shrinking

I believe that the next 10 or 20 years of shrinking is going to happen. I'm expecting more transistors every two or three years by a number large enough so how you think about design has to change. It's like if I didn't believe in Moore's Law, and then Moore's Law transistors showed up, my design teams were all drowned. Like imagine you build brick buildings out of bricks. And every year, the bricks are half the size, or every two years. Well, if you kept building bricks the same way, so many bricks per person per day, the amount of time to build a building would go up exponentially. But if you said, I know that's

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