Zettaflop Supercomputers and Moore’s Law

Intel’s Pat Gelsinger, a guy in a position to know and help drive Intel’s technology roadmap (he is Intel’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and SVP) spoke recently at the Intel Developers Forum where he gave a presentation called “From Petaflops to Milliwatts.”   In that presentation he described something we should all be glad to know, he believes Moore’s Law will continue to hold good through 2029 (as I’m sure most readers here know, Moore’s Law comes from Intel co-founder Gordon Moore’s statement that the number of transistors on a chip will double about every two years).

Read more on Pat Gelsinger’s latest statement at the article on Web Sphere Journal.

For more on Moore’s Law see:

http://www.intel.com/technology/magazine/silicon/moores-law-0405.htm

and

http://www.intel.com/technology/mooreslaw/index.htm

This is all really cool.  Technology optimists like me get excited thinking about the power for good this can be.  But something else is lurking out there that we should all be aware of.  There is still evil in cyberspace, and we good guys will always need to be outthinking them.  We should ensure steps are put in place now to keep Zettaflop Supercomputers working for the good guys and not the bad guys.

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Tags: CTO, Disruptive IT, Enterprise, Great CTOs, Intel, Moore's Law, Ray Kurzweil, Tech/Internet, Technology Leadership, The Future of Technology

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