Moore’s Law is dead ! Yeah !!!!

According to a new report from the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) ( Intel and Samsung inside), transistors will stop stop shrinking by 2021. I say yeah!

Moore’s law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. The observation is named after Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel and Fairchild Semiconductor, whose 1965 paper described a doubling every year in the number of components per integrated circuit,[2] and projected this rate of growth would continue for at least another decade.[3] In 1975,[4] looking forward to the next decade,[5] he revised the forecast to doubling every two years.[6][7][8] — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

The Moore’s Law was a good law (no not a law, I will talk of that later) to obtain chips with interesting performance. But the counter part was a more and more bloat software layer. This arm race lead “no need to optimize our software, you will have a better hardware at the release of the software”. A one more law ,Wirth’s law (Law ?)

that software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster. — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law

Moreover, Moore’s Law is not a law. This is a self-fulfilling prophecy : It was an observation and we put R&D and marketing effort to continue the phenomenon. That why Gordon Moore says aloha to Moore’s Law few year ago.

Why not say goodbye to the Moore’s Law ? And think to other laws : “Double the efficiency of software every 18 month”, “Put 2 more users on the same server every year”… Lot of things to invent.

So yes, Moore’s Law is perhaps dead, and it is good for the software world. It is in the constraint that we can be more creative. Yeah !