Algorithms For Dummies

 Struggling with Big Data

Some advocate that Moore’s Law already no longer holds. The chip industry has 

kept up the promise so far, but now it’s lowering expectations. Intel has already 

increased the time between its generations of CPUs, saying that in five years, chip 

miniaturization will hit a wall. You can read this interesting story on the MIT 

Technology Review at 

https://www.technologyreview.com/s/601441/moores- 

law-is-dead-now-what/

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Moore’s  Law  has  a  direct  effect  on  data.  It  begins  with  smarter  devices.  The 

smarter the devices, the more diffusion (electronics are everywhere in our day and 

age). The greater the diffusion, the lower the price becomes, creating an endless 

loop that drove and is driving the use of powerful computing machines and small 

sensors everywhere. With large amounts of computer memory available and larger 

storage disks for data, the consequences are an expansion of the availability of 

data, such as websites, transaction records, a host of various measurements, digi-

tal images, and other sorts of data flooding from everywhere.