The next "Moore's Law" could explain why NVIDIA wants ARM Holdings so badly

You probably have heard the name Intel before, but you might not be familiar with the name of Gordon Moore. The latter is the co-founder of Intel and is reportedly worth a cool $12 billion. But what Moore is known for is an observation that he made in the 1960s. He noticed that transistor densities doubled every other year which gave chip makers something of a roadmap and a goal. TSMC, the world's largest independent foundry, stuffed a little over 52 million transistors into each square mm on chips made using its 10nm process (like 2017's Snapdragon 835 for example). The Snapdragon 865 Mobile ...

from PhoneArena https://ift.tt/35Tgl2X