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Moore's Law doesn't really work anymore. It hasn't held for the last 4 years, IIRC. That's why a lot of focus has been on multicore systems to try and get new speedups based on parallel computing as opposed to getting purely single-chip improvements.


Moores law is strictly about transistor count and not performance, it is just that we are only now seeing the two come decoupled.


Aren't transistor count and performance very positively correlated?


They are, but performance in teraflops is not the same as performance in general computing activities. We are now scaling horizontally within a single cpu package.


Wow that's crazy, I had no idea. Do you have a link on arxiv or something I can check out?


it indeed doesn't work anymore for single CPUs but still seems to hold for other thibgs. eg memory (ddr5) or chipsize (see 7nm chips)




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