Moore's law is not a law. It's an observation, it's as much a law as my observation that the amount of rain increases in podunk at a rate of 10% per day. Ther

Moore's law is not a law. It's an observation, it's as much a law as my observation that the amount of rain increases in podunk at a rate of 10% per day. There may be some phenomenon where it's true for a little while, but calling it a law just makes me cringe. The law is a self fulfilling prophecy because chip makers make it as a target which is neither too ambitous nor too cautious. It should be called moore's phenomenon.