Moore's Law

Although Gordon Moore is still getting full credit for making that bold and prophetic statement when he did, I believe that we are simply going through the final stages of what I call 'The Cybernetic Revolution.' I have come to the conclusion that if too much complexity gets factored into any particular system, regardless of its nature, that system eventually reaches a distinct point in its development where the Law of Diminishing Returns starts to become the primary focus, initiates a breakdown in the whole process, thereby producing a net negative effect on the desired outcome. A state of irreducible redundacy is eventually reached which is roughly equal to the same degree of complexity which was originally created in an attempt to solve a particular set of problems. While this may seem like a rather simple minded approach to addressing what is a rather complex situation, instead of going into too much boring and irrelevant detail, I have, as they are fond of saying in the academic world, done the math. I would just like to say in closing, however, that while some comments posted on this site appear to be coming from somehwere way out in left field, the vast majority of them are just as constructive, informative, and insightful, as was that quaint little observation which our friend Mr. Moore made so many years ago. Happy New Year, keep up the good work, and I will look forward to reading what most of you have to say in 2009.  

Nice to see Intel's i7 quad core in there, but the processor that really kick-started the whole multi-core phenomenon was the Sun UltraSPARC T1 with 8 cores (and 32 threads.)

Nice die photo at http://jinsatoh.jp/ennui/ultrasparcT1_overlay_die.jpg