This seems to come up a lot in these discussions but Moore’s Law (actually just an observation) says nothing about single thread performance. It only tells you

This seems to come up a lot in these discussions but Moore’s Law (actually just an observation) says nothing about single thread performance. It only tells you that the number of transistors on on a silicon die will double every 18 months. If we’re still able to add parallel threads of execution at the same rate then Moore’s Law still holds.