(02-21-2018 07:40 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  This won't have any impact on Moore's Law. And BTW, Moore's law is being pushed to its breaking point right now. Intel is the ONLY private semiconductor left with its own independent fabs. And even they are struggling to shrink much further. Intel went from tick-tock (shrink, architecture change, repeat) to tick-tick-tock (shrink, refine, architecture change, repeat). And the shrinks are coming with increasingly poor yields and increasingly nastier problems (read: quantum problems) to fix. I think even Moore's Law will succumb to the most fundamental of all man made abstract laws: The Law of Diminishing Marginal Returns.

Moore's law is the fallacy of phallic fallacies....

the law of diminishing is a given....it's only the 'when' it becomes the definable....then it transitions into something else that doesn't have a definable term as of yet....