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The Decline of Moore’s Law and the Rise of the Hardware Accelerator

Moore's Law created an industry expectation for increasing performance but all good things must come to an end.

Key Points: 
  • Moore's Law created an industry expectation for increasing performance but all good things must come to an end.
  • Clearly, a new approach to the data center infrastructure challenges of an increasingly dynamic and online world is needed one that picks up where Moores Law is leaving off.
  • Specialized processors are changing the face of computing and allowing the innovative spirit of Moores Law to live on, Nagle continued.
  • The decline of Moore's Law should be seen as the dawn of a new age."