People have been predicting the end of Moore's law for ages - it seems to come up every couple of years at least. But, technology always seems to beat the critics (the poster mentions MOSFETs).
Just recently I attended a seminar by a Cambridge lecturer discussing the performance benefits of quantum computing - 1/n*root(n) maximum search relationship for unsorted lists, which seems silly - but thats just quantum stuff for you - who knows, maybe it'll be the next jump to break against Moore's law. Does still look like its a while off though.
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People have been predicting the end of Moore's law for ages - it seems to come up every couple of years at least. But, technology always seems to beat the critics (the poster mentions MOSFETs).
Just recently I attended a seminar by a Cambridge lecturer discussing the performance benefits of quantum computing - 1/n*root(n) maximum search relationship for unsorted lists, which seems silly - but thats just quantum stuff for you - who knows, maybe it'll be the next jump to break against Moore's law. Does still look like its a while off though.