Dennard Scaling
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A scaling law that stated that as transistors get smaller, their power density stays constant so that the power consumption stays proportional to area; mentioned as having slowed, impacting computing capabilities.
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Jensen Huang: NVIDIA - The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution | Lex Fridman Podcast #494
Lex Fridman
A scaling law that stated that as transistors get smaller, their power density stays constant so that the power consumption stays proportional to area; mentioned as having slowed, impacting computing capabilities.
Stanford CS336 Language Modeling from Scratch | Spring 2026 | Lecture 5: GPUs, TPUs
Stanford Online
A principle describing how transistors get smaller, faster, and more power-efficient, which largely ended in the 2000s.