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Death notice: Moore's Law. 19 April 1965 – 2 January 2018

John Savard

Greatly Exaggerated

Ever since Dennard Scaling died, it's been made clear that what doubles every so often due to Moore's Law isn't performance, but just the number of transistors on a die.

As they're building 10nm, 7nm, 5nm, and even 3nm fabs even now, Moore's Law, as currently defined, still has some life left to go. Even with EUV working, of course, the finite size of atoms does mean it can only go so far. (Yield improvements, of course, could continue Moore's Law even once we're stuck at 3nm by increasing the size of a die, until we have chips that fill a whole wafer.)

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