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[–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Moore's law predicts that compared to 1980, computers in 2040 would be a BILLION times faster.

Also that compared to 1994 computers, the ones rolling out now are a MILLION times faster.

A cheap Raspberry PI would easily be able to handle the computational workload of a room full of equipment in 1984.

What would have taken a million years to calculate in 1984 would theoretically take 131 hours today and 29 seconds in 2044...

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Correction: Moore's law predicts that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would double every two years. It doesn't make predictions about computers being "faster" or able to handle a certain "workload". The only thing it predicts is the growth in physical capacity of a single chip.

    And we actually broke Moore's law and this capacity growth slowed a decade ago since manufacturing techniques started being the bottleneck.

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