Moore's Law doesn't require that speed and power of the CPUs increase every two years. The actual law states that the number of transistors at minimum component cost doubles, not just the number of transistors. http://en.wikipedia.org/Moore's_Law/
What could happen, rather than transistors becoming smaller and clock speeds faster, is just that transistors get cheaper to make. So, in 2017, rather than having 4 nm transistors, we have CPUs that we can pick up at Wal-Mart on the way home.
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Moore's Law doesn't require that speed and power of the CPUs increase every two years. The actual law states that the number of transistors at minimum component cost doubles, not just the number of transistors. http://en.wikipedia.org/Moore's_Law/
What could happen, rather than transistors becoming smaller and clock speeds faster, is just that transistors get cheaper to make. So, in 2017, rather than having 4 nm transistors, we have CPUs that we can pick up at Wal-Mart on the way home.