Moore's "law" is a scam. It'll break down any time now.
It projects processes being smaller than an atom, and proceeds on to negative size which is obviously impossible.
that's what people have been saying since the early 00's...
moore's law is technically not specific- nor exacting- it does not necessarily apply any particular technological principle in reality- YES, the original "transistor count" statement was what is most often quoted, but moore's discrepancies on the period of doubling creates problems for example...
regardless, the message that should be gleaned from moore's law is that technological improvements to the most part continue on a logarithmic scale. be this performance, capacity, speed, or whatever.
the statement was originally made using what was known of technology at the time- how would modern advances be categorized otherwise.
regardless... yes, transistor density does have a limit, but that's not to say that the same performance doubling cannot be achieved by other means that we have not yet determined.
Moore's law really should have never been called such as it has implications far greater than just those in the computer industry, and historically many other technological innovations have been shown to follow the same trending.
The greatest arguments against moore's law recently have been coming from the supporters of the singularity "cult", and from those who want to dilly dally around in proving a general statement false based on technicalities.
for the first one... stop watching so much crappy scifi.
as for the second one.. grow up and well.. does it really matter? regardless of transistor count the performance will still follow the same trending. look back to the industrial revolution and other major historical breakthroughs if you want proof that technology in itself expands and accelerates on a logarithmic scale.
In the end, didn't mean this to end up in this thread, but bickering about this stuff is pretty dumb...
that'd be like seeing the curve of hdd capacities, yet saying well, they cant fit it into such a small package always due to magnetics, and completely ignore the advances in ssd that will eventually almost guaranteed, replace hdd altogether.
