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Let's not split hairs, Moore's law is the doubling of transistor count in the same size every 18 months.

• Filligree 7y ago
  Which we recently have only managed by shrinking the wires, packing the transistors tighter, increasing the die size, changing transistor shape or doing anything but actually shrink the transistors.
  • zozbot234 7y ago
    You don't want to shrink the transistors because that increases static leakage, other things being equal. With dark silicon becoming more important, you actually want bigger devices that can minimize that, and use charge-recovery logic to conserve dynamic power as well. Only stuff that's very infrequently powered up can be built naïvely, the way it would be absent dark silicon constraints.
    • baybal2 7y ago
      You can shrink it even further, no questions, and we possibly go there once HfO process will advance to the point when you can bury everything in it. There are many ways forward, I'd say even too much of them. Too many people are trumpeting "the death of silicon" or CMOS, and too many people are focusing on "revolutionary" solutions