Re: Oh dear.
>What most folks don't appreciate is the economics of the situation.
Which is what Moore was originally talking about.
The most cost effective number of transistors/area scales as a power law - because although each smaller generation was more expensive, the cost increase was mostly linear but the number of transistors was area.
This hasn't necessarily been true for the last generation of process steps, 7nm may always be more expensive/transistor than 12nm - but if you want to pack more performance into a smaller package to fit in a phone or put a gazziillion CUDA cores on a GPU, you will pay for it.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
