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Originally Posted by ilovejedd
Not exactly exponential anymore. For most folks, we already have excess CPU power available for desktop computers and laptops. Outside of benchmarking and specialized applications, you'd be hard pressed to notice a difference between a $1000 hexa-core Core i7 Sandy Bridge-EX and a $50 dual-core Celeron Sandy Bridge. The move in x86 right now is more towards integration and lower power consumption.
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Well to be fair, Ninjalawyer
did say "computer chips" and not necessarily "CPU". GPUs are still advancing quite quickly, and there are plenty of other chips and options that are in their infancy. Massively parallel computing (hundreds or thousands of cores rather than just the 6-12 we have at the high end today), vector processors, SSDs and other memory and storage advacnements, bus advancements like USB3 and Thunderbolt, quantum computing, etc. Just because
Moore's Law has theoretically topped for CPUs out doesn't mean there's nowhere else to go.