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In 1970, Caltechh professor Carved Mead coined the term “Moore’s Law,” naming it after Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore, who observed that transistor counts doubled every year in an article winningly called “Cramming more components onto integrated circuits.” The law describes an important trend in the history of computing: processing speec, memory capacity, sensors and even number of megapixels are all subject to the law.
The law isn’t so much a real or physical law, like gravity, as it is an observation. Some day, Moore’s Law will be disproven as we maximize our efficiency in designing processors… but it won’t happen for another ten years, if IBM and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology have anything to say about it.
The team has figured out a way in which multiple processor cores can be stacked vertically instead of next to each other. That effectively springs CPUs from two dimensions to three dimensions, but significantly speeds up data transfers between cores, making them “many times faster” than they are right now.
Of course, the new 3D processors use a lot of heat, but keep them chilled with liquid cooling through the in-built, follicle-thin cooling tubes and everything runs just fine.
The result is a 3D supercomputer called Aquasaur, the first computer to ever use multiple nano surfaces imbued with liquid cooling to keep its extreme heat from melting itself into a pile of ash. Quite tricky… but can it play Crysis?
