Even so, the idea of exponential growth behind Moore's law was infectious, influencing predictions about the rate of ...

In 1975, [Moore] revised his law to a doubling every two years. Here you have a law where not only the meaning – transistors, performance, or speed – can change, but also the duration.

Eventually, physical hardware scaling will have to change. Moore’s Law is only a trend in outcome ... technology is improving at a fairly steady rate, enabling processors to physically shrink ...