Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel who died earlier this year, is famous for forecasting a continuous rise in the density of transistors that we can pack onto semiconductor chips. James McKenzie looks at how “Moore’s law” is still going strong after almost six decades, but warns that further progress is becoming harder and ever more expensive to sustain
20 Jun 2023 James McKenzie
James McKenzie
is the writer of the Transactions column for Physics World about physics in industry. He is writing here in a personal capacity