Moore's Law & Its Afterlife
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Hardware & Compute
Transistor scaling slowed; the industry routed around it.
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Classical Moore's Law — transistor density doubling every two years at flat cost — has bent: nodes still shrink (N2, 18A) but each is costlier, and Dennard power scaling died long ago. AI performance now comes from the workarounds: bigger dies to the reticle limit, chiplets and advanced packaging, lower precision, and rack-scale integration. That is why packaging (CoWoS) and power delivery, not just lithography, headline this database.
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Record reviewed as of 2026-01-15 — see Methodology.