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Last summer, it was a great honor to go salmon fishing with Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, and seer of exponential trends in technology.

I have been thinking and blogging about the next phase of Moore’s Law, the breakthroughs in molecular electronics that will continue what has been a 100 years of exponential growth in computational capability.

Looking to the future again, Moore recently made a sizable donation to Caltech to
“establish the Nanoscale Systems Initiative (NSI). The grant will support one of the scientific and technological community’s promising research avenues–the creation of extremely tiny devices to augment and in some cases displace the state-of-the-art electronic systems of today.” (press release)

Photo of the catch.

4 responses to “Moore Future Fishing”

  1. Wow, I tryed to understand about the next phase of Moore’s Law and I concluded I’d better stick to my field of expertise. What kind of bait/lure were you using? Did you catch any fish?
    One of the pictures in my album, Malleo River, is from a spot I went fly fishing during last week of February with some friends.

  2. We used some fish on a hook. We needed really heavy weights to keep the line deep while moving. So Gordon makes his own weights by pouring molten lead into Campbell soup cans.

    The ladies caught their limit of salmon and the biggest fish:

  3. Yey!

    Moore’s Law Lives: Intel has announced its next generation of chip: with more than one billion transistors.
    http://www.technologyreview.com/InfoTech-Hardware/wtr_16198,294,...

    (see the pic of the chip is cute!)

    ok, now thinking this are old news to you surely… but well, for others may do as new news. =)

  4. That is a pretty SRAM test chip. The main accomplishment is the feature size. A year ago, Intel announced the specs for microprocessors with more transistors.

    It’s good to see memory as the early proof point, because these chips are mainly memory going forward.

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