Not entirely. The quote is about computing power per unit of energy not per unit of time which is what Moore's Law is about.
Your Pentium probably ran at about 150 MHz and consumed around 12 Watts. A Core i7 might run at around 3 GHz, but it's also using 120 Watts to do it.
Take a look at the W/Ghz and W/Mhz columns in the charts here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CPU_power_dissipation_...
Not entirely. The quote is about computing power per unit of energy not per unit of time which is what Moore's Law is about.
Your Pentium probably ran at about 150 MHz and consumed around 12 Watts. A Core i7 might run at around 3 GHz, but it's also using 120 Watts to do it.
Take a look at the W/Ghz and W/Mhz columns in the charts here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_CPU_power_dissipation_...