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rl1987

I thought Moore's law ended years ago and the current transistor sizes are merely marketing numbers?

Moore's law is not about transistor sizes, it's for number of transistors on a chip. This is still going strong, at least for the next few years.

I see, can you explain. Aren't transistor sizes still reducing which is what Moore's law predicted (being able to fit more transistors in a wafer)?

I believe the reason the industry went with multi-core chips is because they hit a wall (so to speak) with the actual transistor counts per chip.

I would wager a guess that most people have CPUs that are over-powered for their needs. I'm not saying researching and improvement is a waste of time, just that for 95% of the people, buying bleeding edge computers is a waste of money.

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