November 5th, 2005
Gordon Moore live from New York
Gordon Moore spoke at Marconi Award Event in New York City where he received the prestigious Marconi Lifetime Achievement Award. In the video clip Moore explains the origins of this forty-year-old observation, and now ‘Law,’ about the rate of computing innovation. From his talk: "If you fall behind leading technology, you have a cost and performance disadvantage." The Intel/AMD competition on multicore, threads and power consumption is a good example of two companies working feverishly to not fall behind one another…
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