Broadcom Chairman and CTO Henry Samueli says Moore’s Law isn’t making computer chips cheaper anymore.
Moore’s law, in brief, is that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years.
This has tended to make processors smaller, faster and cheaper with each generation.
But keeping Moore’s Law going now requires complicated manufacturing techniques that are so expensive they cancel out the cost savings that should come with each new generation, said Samueli … Instead of getting more speed, less power consumption and lower cost with each generation, chip makers now have to choose two out of three.
It an interesting article:
The Moore’s Law blowout sale is ending, Broadcom’s CTO says
Regular cost declines with each new generation of silicon are coming to an end