Is Moore's Law Dead in 2026?
In short: Moore's Law is checked against four separate measures: transistor count, density, cost and performance. The two-year doubling has slowed, and researchers are pursuing two routes forward.
A 2:09 short film in the series “Moore's Law”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: Harvard Business School Online, “What Is Moore's Law? Examples from the Semiconductor Industry”; ACM Queue (Association for Computing Machinery); article by Stanford VLSI Research Group, “CPU DB: Recording Microprocessor History: With this open database, you can mine microprocessor trends over the past 40 years.: Queue: Vol 10, No 4”; Nature / Springer Nature (nature.com), “From Moore to more: the future of silicon chips”.
Sources used in this film
- Harvard Business School Online — What Is Moore's Law? Examples from the Semiconductor Industry · View →
- ACM Queue (Association for Computing Machinery); article by Stanford VLSI Research Group — CPU DB: Recording Microprocessor History: With this open database, you can mine microprocessor trends over the past 40 years.: Queue: Vol 10, No 4 · View →
- Nature / Springer Nature (nature.com) — From Moore to more: the future of silicon chips · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: Harvard Business School Online: What Is Moore's Law? Examples from the Semiconductor Industry
- Also: ACM Queue (Association for Computing Machinery); article by Stanford VLSI Research Group: CPU DB: Recording Microprocessor History: With this open database, you can mine microprocessor trends over the past 40 years.: Queue: Vol 10, No 4
- Also: Nature / Springer Nature (nature.com): From Moore to more: the future of silicon chips
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