Getting “Moore” Out of Your Cloud

Grazed from CIOReview. Author: Editorial Staff.

As many of you in the technology industry are aware, in 1965, Dr. Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, observed that the number of transistors producible within a silicon wafer could economically double every year. Although the doubling rate has been revised several times since then, the prediction has served as a target and benchmark for semiconductor technology growth.

Moore’s law has fueled exponential computing advancements over the last several decades. For example, we have seen microprocessors with a few thousand transistors and kilobytes of memory transform into multi-core server chips with billions of transistors, gigahertz clock rates, and equally impressive storage and networking capabilities…

Today, it is the availability of these servers with their exponentially improving roadmap over time that underpins hyperscale and cloud buildouts. No exponential, however, lasts forever, and understanding the future limitations of Moore’s law may be useful in understanding the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead for continued cloud growth…

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