Agreed, but Moore's Law has morphed to refer to both xtors and performance despite his original phrasing. The biggest innovation I've seen is in the cloud: bac

Agreed, but Moore's Law has morphed to refer to both xtors and performance despite his original phrasing. The biggest innovation I've seen is in the cloud: backplane I/O and memory is essential and up until a few years ago there weren't many cloud configurations suitable for massive amount of I/O.