Say that three times fast!
Moore himself today has stated that he expects his own law to reach its limits within 10 to 15 years. For those who have never heard of Moore’s Law, it predicts that the number of transistors on integrated circuits will double every 2 years. And computer CPU’s have followed this pattern accurately ever since.
But as we reach the physical limits of our current IC technology (silicon, and now hafnium) this will become harder to follow. For instance, we’re currently at a 5 molecular layer gate in a transistor. You cannot go beyond 1 layer, so you reach your limit.
What’s next I hear you ask? Well the main contenders are quantum computers and the yet to be developed photon based technologies. As there is already a commercially available quantum computer, my money’s there. For now.
