Koomey’s law heckles Moore’s within the post-PC world

Across the same time most years, ( 2007 , 2009 , 2010 ), someone heralds the death of Moore’s law . This time it’s Stanford University’s Dr. Jonathan Koomey , who has found that energy efficiency roughly doubles every two years. With the upward push of mobile devices, we care less if our phones and tablets can outpace a desktop and more about if an entire charge will last the duration of our commute — reducing the significance of Moore’s law. Historically, efficiency have been a secondary concern as manufacturers built ever faster CPUs, but Koomey believes there’s enormous room for improvement. In 1985, Dr. Richard Feynman calculated an efficiency upper limit of Factor 100 Billion — since then we’ve only managed to reach Factor 40,000. Let’s just hope Quantum Computing goes mainstream before next autumn so as to get on with more important things.