[Flieteewell]

Bigger IC = more distance between transistors = slower, IIRC. I believe at a particular stage (around 2-3cm on a part seemingly) it becomes more effective to have another processor than to have just one processor be bigger. If you don't are enormously oversimplifying, though, they're not completely detailing Moore's Law precisely. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moores_Law Moore's Law is very simply a statement by a man that ICs might escalation in energy tremendously in a regular style. Actually, it was massively UNDERestimated by him (initially expressing every 10 years, just later modifying that to every 2 years). Recently (possibly what was discussed in your DC present) he explained that it'd to finish fundamentally - we couldn't keep becoming smaller and smaller forever, we'd struck the nuclear level. Obviously, I'd recommend that quantum computing might only begin at that stage