[email protected] (Lindy Mayfield) writes: > It is quite clear that IBM mainframes follow Moore's law, and I wanted > to see if I could verify that somehow.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#8 Demonstrating Moore's law http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014h.html#9 Demonstrating Moore's law for quite awhile, mainframes are using circuit technology developed for other purposes ... so it is only incidental that mainframes are following Moore's law. with scores of multi-billion dollar high-tech fabs around the world producing hundreds of thousands of wafers per year (needed to run around the clock to recover the cost of building the fab). mainframe market is possibly now only needing one or two wafers per year ... so you aren't seeing all of this circuit advances based on the mainframe market .... you aren't going to develop 14nm circuit technology and build the necessary $5B fab to just produce a single wafer/yr for the mainframe market. -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
