The end of Moore’s law, or just of complacency?
Since 1965, Moore’s law has been at the heart of the semiconductor business. Revised in 1975, it essentially means that the number of transistors that can be put on a microchip doubles roughly once every two years.
The longevity of this theory, which was named after Intel co-founder Gordon E Moore, has been critically important to the sector for decades, but the cost to shrinkage benefit appears to finally be coming to an end.
“If you look over the past 40 years, the evolution of Moore’s law has had a dramatic impact on society. It wasn’t just that devices were shrinking, ...
