The fact that they don't need to license technology. They can bring more functionality into the package that they sell to Dell, etc. like they have already done.
> but I think the point they're making is that Moore's law created a situation where you couldn't ramp up frequency anymore because the transistors are so small.
That is not the point they are making. Clock frequencies have not changed since the deep-pipelined P4, but transistor count has continued to climb. Here is what the author, who clearly does not know what he is talking about, said about that:
"increasing the clock frequency is next to impossible. That is the whole 'End of Moore’s Law' that people have been harping on for over a decade now."
The fact that they don't need to license technology. They can bring more functionality into the package that they sell to Dell, etc. like they have already done.
> but I think the point they're making is that Moore's law created a situation where you couldn't ramp up frequency anymore because the transistors are so small.
That is not the point they are making. Clock frequencies have not changed since the deep-pipelined P4, but transistor count has continued to climb. Here is what the author, who clearly does not know what he is talking about, said about that:
"increasing the clock frequency is next to impossible. That is the whole 'End of Moore’s Law' that people have been harping on for over a decade now."