Intel: Moore’s law no longer sustainable


The chipmaker says it can no longer maintain its two-year cycle for shrinking the features in its microprocessors.

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The chipmaker says it can no longer maintain its two-year cycle for shrinking the features in its microprocessors.

The delay is a seismic change for both Intel and the chip industry, which has used the two-year upgrade cycle as a defining maxim for four decades (Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, for whom Moore’s Law is named, predicted in 1965 the number of transistors on a chip would double annually. He revised that forecast in 1975.)

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