Comments on: Report: IBM researcher says Moore's Law at end

IBM Fellow Carl Anderson says at a conference this week that Moore's Law is hitting a ceiling, according to a report.

[JonathanPDX]

Judging from the comments on here it apparently makes little difference other than giving people something to argue about.

[memathews]

Well, actually.... Gordon Moore's original paper from 1965 addresses almost every issue commented here (twurl.nl/kaiyqe), including heat buildup and manufacturing costs.

I agree that Cnet needs to raise the level of fact checking and research when addressing something as seminal to the technology industries as Moore's Law, especially when it is so easy to review the source material. The Intel Museum maintains an archive of items surrounding Moore's Law, including Dr. Moore's original notebook sketches of his observation. Images and PDF documents are available for download (twurl.nl/pv4jvu).

When I still worked at Intel, I was fortunate enough to hear Dr. Moore discuss Moore's Law. He laughed at the idea of it being a "law" and told us he had revised it many times in the early years. He also gets a kick out of hearing the fuss every couple of years when someone states that Moore's Law is dead, only to have the statement proven incorrect by some unforeseen leap in technology.

Chalk up another happy birthday for Moore's Law on April 19.