computers are also used for their own future designs. I would imagine that faster computers could help design better computers in the future, thus there's some

computers are also used for their own future designs. I would imagine that faster computers could help design better computers in the future, thus there's some level of exponential growth there. However, i think computer aided designs are reaching the limits of what help it gives, and the bottleneck is human intelligence and material engineering difficulties (that cannot use the help of computers). that's why moores law was more exponential early on in the miniaturisation of chips, but it's slowed down more and more - till one day it's gonna be sublinear. Of course, this doesn't preclude a new breakthrough in a different medium (optical computers, rather than electronic?), or a different form like quantum.