There will have to be a radical shift in the way-computers are designed as the evolution of the silicon chip approaches its end, according to a leading semiconductor specialist. Bernard Meyerson, vice president of innovation at IBM, was speaking to E&T ahead of the 2014 Turing Lecture tour in late February, in which he will expand on his view of how IT technology needs to evolve: "The truth is, Moore's Law died in 2003. It's been effectively dead for ten years but we've continued to struggle with it. "What most people don't know is that Gordon [Moore] wrote half the answer,'' Meyerson continued, explaining that Moore used observations of trends and the underlying technology of the time to predict that the number of functions on a chip would double every year.' 'Bob Dennard wrote the other half: for how you do it."
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