Do we even care if the Moore’s-law rate slows down by 50%? How small do our ICs need to be? Graph by [Wgsimon] via Wikipedia.

and clock speed took the hard turn to the right seen in the graphs above. A slowing of Moore’s Law would also be seen in the semiconductor business, and this has also been the case. In 2014 ...

Moore's Law was an off-hand prediction that came to be one of the prevailing laws of modern computing — but what did it predict, and can we still rely on it?