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These sorts of articles seem to come along a few times a year, predicting some sort of insurmountable obstacle which will bring the end of Moore's Law as we know it. A few months down the road this obstacle is somehow miraculously resolved, and then a little while later we see another article with similar predictions.
Here's my prediction: Moore's Law will eventually cease to hold true when components called "transistors" cease to be used as the fundamental building block of processors, and we move on to optical or quantum technologies for processing. The real limitation of Moore's Law is that it depends on the continued use of electronic processors.
These sorts of articles seem to come along a few times a year, predicting some sort of insurmountable obstacle which will bring the end of Moore's Law as we know it. A few months down the road this obstacle is somehow miraculously resolved, and then a little while later we see another article with similar predictions.
Here's my prediction: Moore's Law will eventually cease to hold true when components called "transistors" cease to be used as the fundamental building block of processors, and we move on to optical or quantum technologies for processing. The real limitation of Moore's Law is that it depends on the continued use of electronic processors.
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