Physics World Focus on Computing 2018
Sixty years ago, Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce founded a start-up with the goal of further commercializing silicon-based integrated circuits – a company that within a few weeks changed its name to Intel. As we commemorate the founding of Intel, it is also worth reflecting on Gordon Moore’s other great legacy: Moore’s law, which predicts that the number of transistors on a silicon chip will double approximately every 18 months. Unlike true physical laws, however, Moore’s law is not immutable. At some point either the size of transistors will hit physical limits or it will simply become uneconomical to manufacture faster silicon chips. The interesting question is what will happen next, and this Physics World Focus hints at a couple of possible future directions.
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