Is Moore’s Law Really Dead?

The essay is strong due to its bold, bullish copulative sentences that use "is" like an equal sign and land with certainty. Integrated electronics are the future of electronics. There's a person named Blammo. Some of the prose sounds like a newsreel or like Johnson bucking up geopolitics. The only path of reasonable men is the path of peaceful settlement according to Lyndon Baines Johnson.

The essay claims that with unit cost falling as the number of components per circuit rises, economics may dictate squeezing as many as 65,000 components on a single Silicon chip. The negative slope, in which the two variables, unit cost and number of components, are correlated, has a rousing momentum despite the hedge.

Moore projects the exaggerated certitude of a pitch deck, or perhaps a graduate student who is trying to assure her supervisor that her research is going well. Microassembly techniques for individual components, thin film structures and Semiconductor Integrated Circuits evolved. The way of the future is believed to be a combination of the different approaches. When the Soviets appeared to be winning the Space Race, American scientists were left with a sour taste in their mouths because of the appreciation of intellectual collaboration and convergence.

The title of the book is "Cramming" and it's at 1,825 words. The Old English word for pressing something into something else is cram. There was so much of that. We cram things into our suitcases, shoes, and mouths when we are not in the mood for measuring. The slide-rule of engineers has an essay in it. It is recommended that you put more of your shit into an overfull closet. Scientists are still beholden to the constraints of physical space until the path of all reasonable men becomes the path of quantum

There is a point. Moore's law might not be as important as a field of inquiry like quantum or the metaverse. It might be time to read "Cramming" if you need another reason.

A few weeks before the release of his company's new graphics card for gaming, Jensen Huang said that Moore's law was dead.

The desire to shrink transistors and reduce costs has given way to an ambition to conduct quantum experiments and increase performance without regard to size or price.