SFF.Network [SFF Network] Moore's Law Buckles as Intel's Tick-Tock Cycle Slows Down

Techpowerup is reporting that Moore's law - that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since the integrated circuit was invented - may have come to an end. After being accurate for many years in CPU architecture, problems with the 10nm and smaller nodes becoming incredibly challenging. Intel's Broadwell platform launched later than expected, late enough for Intel to launch a Haswell refresh.

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[Phryq]

So when can we realistically expect a 10nm mITX with quad ram?

 

[BirdofPrey]

Epic thread necro much?
There's already mITX server boards with quad SO-DIMMs. No reason to think there won't be any for Coffee Lake.
As for mainstream, there's no technical reasons in the way, so it's a matter of convincing board manufacturers that there's a market for motherboards with SO-DIMMs onboard, and just hoping SO-DIMMs close the gap in performance more with DIMMs (much of the reason it's expected end users wouldn't like a board with SO-DIMMs; higher frequencies and lower CAS aren't as common)

 

[Phuncz]

The ASRock X299-ITX/ac also has four SODIMM sockets and quad-channel support.

 

[BirdofPrey]

Oh right, forgot about that one.
Not a mainstream chipset, though.

 

[Sanders]

Hi,
Moore's law, isnt that doubling every second year? Just to be fair to Moore ...