EVERYONE WHO READS PC Pro will be familiar with Moore’s law; less known is how hard the semiconductor industry, with Intel at its high-frequency heart, has worked to ensure it remained true. And now, like a grumpy toddler who can’t fit the triangle through the square hole, it’s scrunching Moore’s law into a ball and throwing it away.
I’ll admit my toddler analogy is flawed. Our infant would be over 50 years old and rival South Africa’s GDP for income – global semiconductor sales topped $335 billion in 2015. That’s even more than Kim Kardashian’s worth.
Something the semiconductor industry shares with toddlers, though, is one heck of an appetite. If we look at Intel in its early 1970s years, it grew at a phenomenal rate. First, it feasted on memory…
