Jensen Huang Q&A: Why Moore’s Law is dead, but the metaverse will still happen
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Asked why Nvidia’s latest 40 Series graphics cards cost as much as $1,600, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that Moore’s Law is dead. He explained that the days of constantly falling costs are over, as technology advances in manufacturing have slowed and the pandemic shortage messed things up further.
But don’t worry too much. The advances in both AI and gaming are going to work together to propel the ambitious dreams of humanity, like the metaverse.
Huang spoke at a press Q&A at Nvidia’s online GTC22 conference last week.
Moore’s Law was posited by Intel chairman emeritus Gordon Moore in 1965 that the number of components on a chip would double every couple of years. It was a metronome that signaled that every couple of years chip performance would either double or costs would halve.
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And it held true for decades, based mostly on manufacturing advances. But with the laws of physics reaching their limit in terms of miniaturization, those advances are no longer taken for granted. Intel is investing heavily to make the law hold up. But Huang said that smart chip design has to take over, which is why the company shifted to a new architecture for its latest generation of graphics chips. The result for the 40 Series graphics chips is some outstanding performance coming out for PC games just as we head into a global downturn.
Huang believes it’s more important than ever to keep the advances in performance and
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