News NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang says that GPUs will replace CPUs and Moores Law is dead

At GTC held in Beijing, China, Jensen Huang stated that Moores Law is dead and that GPUs will replace CPUs!!!

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[Julio Espinosa]

When the transistors are measured 10 nm, just think the scale...
1 hair is between 70,000 and 80,000 nm.
1 Helium atom is 0.1 nm.
I think it could be true

 

[msystems]

Sorry, this is all I could think of.

If density doesn't improve the same as it used to, but there's more and more cores added, is Moore's law really dead?

 

[AleksandarK]

Good point, but Moore`s Law says that the TRANSISTOR count doubles every two years, not that we are getting more cores. Cores are added with the use of more silicon and making the dies bigger. Of course it is not that simple.

BUT, during the solar eclipse, Intel said that they can pack 100 million transistors in 1 square mm. I don`t know what was the max number two years ago, but i don`t think it was anywhere near the current number.

 

[Hifihedgehog]

Moore`s Law says that the TRANSISTOR count doubles every two years

Not to be a stickler, but it is the transistor density that Moore predicted would double.

 

[jØrd]

Ignoring for a moment the technical merits (or otherwise) of Huang's statement it does strike me as exactly the sort of thing i'd expect to hear out of a company that's failed to make a serious impact w/ their attempts up to this point to enter the (consumer facing?) CPU market in a meaningful way. Sort of a saving face and accepting defeat moment perhaps.

 

[AleksandarK]

Not to be a stickler, but it is the transistor density that Moore predicted would double.

That is what i meant.

Ignoring for a moment the technical merits (or otherwise) of Huang's statement it does strike me as exactly the sort of thing i'd expect to hear out of a company that's failed to make a serious impact w/ their attempts up to this point to enter the (consumer facing?) CPU market in a meaningful way. Sort of a saving face and accepting defeat moment perhaps.

Good point.

 

[Biowarejak]

While it sounds nice in theory, most programs, especially operating systems, really wouldn't benefit from running on a GPU. They'd need to be rethought from the ground up to take advantage of the hardware at least that's my understanding.

 

[Josh | NFC]

If Brian Krzanich said this, I would be surprised.