Nvidia: Moore's Law is dead, the GPU will soon replace the CPU

The head of Nvidia Jensen Huang became the latest expert to declare that Moore's law was dead. According to DigiTimes, speaking at the GPU Technology conference took place in Beijing, China, the CEO said that advances on graphics processors would make GPUs replace the CPU soon.

Moore's law takes the name of Intel co-founder Gordon Moore based on his observation in 1965. He said that the number of transistors per square inch of the dense intergrated curcuit doubled each year and projected Guess this trend will continue in the future. He announced the revised law every 2 years.

Speaking on the topic of AI: Trends, Challenges and Opportunities, Mr. Huang was the first head of the big semiconductor company to declare the death of Moore's Law. He thinks that the computational power of the GPU and the neural network is growing at a faster rate than Moore said.

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Mr. Huang is very confident in Nvidia's GPU

Mr. Huang said that while CPU transistors grew at a rate of about 50% annually, the efficiency only increased by 10%. It is hard to find a more advanced parallel structure on the CPU, so these processors will soon be replaced by GPUs.

Huang also said that Nvidia's GPU is the perfect solution for AI-based applications, that he believes the GPU is ready to play a bigger role in terms of computing, rather than completely replacing the computer's CPU.

Not surprisingly, Intel disagreed with Mr. Huang's view.

'For 34 years working in the semiconductor industry, I have seen ads for Moore's Law no less than four times. When we go from 14nm to 10nm technology and plan to go to 7nm and 5nm or more, our plan is to prove that Moore's Law still lives and lives well, 'said CEO Brian Krzanich last year.