OT: Nature on the 'end' of Moore's Law

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 16 February 2016 at 10:20:57 UTC, Laeeth Isharc wrote:
> http://www.nature.com/news/the-chips-are-down-for-moore-s-law-1.19338

It is more a sign of Intel not having competition from AMD and 
the cheap low energy chip market taking over the consumer market. 
Many Apple devices are only 2-core. Most programs don't benefit 
much from more than 2 cores.

Other vendors are considering switching away from silicone to 
more expensive materials, integrating computing with memory, 
layering/stacking etc.

Intel may go for making chips slower (less heat) while 
researching the next technology shift.