Emphasis on lower power consumption does not "kill Moore's law" or have a negative effect on computing performance. On the contrary, CPU performance has been li

Emphasis on lower power consumption does not "kill Moore's law" or have a negative effect on computing performance. On the contrary, CPU performance has been limited by thermal output and power consumption for at least a decade and improving the power consumption will improve the performance, not the other way. Research and development efforts have been concentrated on !/W (bang per watt) for two reasons, the other one being cooling and power supply (battery consumption) on mobile devices in particular and the other reason is being able to run at higher clocks for longer before thermal throttling kicks in. Power consumption and thermal output are relevant for all kinds of modern computers from smartphones to servers to supercomputers. Power consumption and thermal output are related in an almost linear proportionality, twice the power consumption, twice the thermal output. Since clock frequencies stopped going up some ten years ago, we've had a 5x to 10x increase in single core performance (in addition to multi cores) thanks to increase in power and thermal efficiency and smaller transistors. Concentrating on power consumption keeps Moore's law alive rather than kills it.