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 Thursday, July 26, 2012 |
| What happened to Moore's law? |
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Does the following resonate with you? Google to the rescue!!!(?) This is an excerpt from a CNET article.
 Google's chief financial officer, Patrick Pichette, described during a presentation introducing Google Fiber how computing power thanks to Moore's Law has grown through the years doubling every 18 months. And he showed how the cost of network storage has fallen dramatically, paving the way for cloud-based services such as the ones offered by Google. But network access speeds have remained relatively flat over the past several years. The result has been only incremental changes in the speed of services that are offered to consumers.
"We saw a doubling of speeds for Internet access in the early years as we went from 14 kbps to 28 kbps," said. "But then after the cable modem showed up, we've seen little progress in access." Pichette also pointed out that even though speeds have only increased incrementally on a per megabit basis, Americans are still paying more for Internet access than consumers in other countries. |
damon at 8:54 PM |
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