moore's law

For decades, the evolution of technology was mapped out along the neat lines drawn by Moore’s Law—the prediction that transistor counts in microchips would double roughly every two years, unlocking regular leaps in computing power. That simplifying rule was enough for a generation. Yet the rise...

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At a recent Investor Day, Intel finally gave us a formal launch window for its upcoming 8th generation of Core CPUs, dubbed Coffee Lake this time around. Expected to launch in the second half of 2017, the Coffee Lake update to the current Kaby Lake processors will offer an expected 15% bump in...

Alec Wolman is a senior researcher in the Networking Research Group at MSR. Alec has been working on a difficult problem; how to get the most from mobile computing devices. This involves several other problems; mobile computing devices often don't have the horse-power to drive computation-heavy...

Huge changes in software and microchips needed A new report from the US National Research Council has warned that technology growth will grind to a halt unless a new generation of hardware and software is developed. The catchy-titled “The Future of Computing Performance: Game over or next...

At least it is better than Vista Users of Microsoft's Windows 7 are generally "very satisfied" with the new operating system. A report from Forrester Research said that most of the great unwashed know the product is there if they want it. Writing in its blog Forrester said a "strong majority"...