@midian182 Since I'm not as gamer, the only issue I have with this article is this"
"It’s noted that the failure of Moore’s Law isn’t helping the situation. Processors aren’t improving at the same rate they did in the past, extending product cycles to four years". ((**))
Moore's law can't possibly "fail", because it could never have been described as a "law of physics or mathematics", to begin with.
Given the exponential difficulty of creating the lithography and precision of machinery necessary to etch pathways on the order of a few atoms wide, it should have reasonably been expected to "break down", or fail to track its conclusions many years ago.
The only people touting the imminent failure of "Moore's law", are those foolish enough to have jumped on the "it'e a natural law" bandwagon in the first place.
I've been predicting its lack of practicability, applicability, and durability, regularly, for almost the entire duration of my membership at Techspot.
How the authors of this article have managed to manipulate the interpretation Moore's law to their flimsy conclusions about "PC gaming being dead", is an obvious case of journalism for journalism's sake, and trying to seem knowledgeable when they are merely trying to pull a paycheck out of their organization's a**, while spraying nonsense about haphazardly, trying to gain traction with pure fantasy.
The kicker:
Throughout my school days, the mathematical axiom the, "the square root of the base of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of its sides", though infallible, was referred to as, "the Pythagorean Theorem". Not a natural law, in spite of being proven fully accurate for about two millenniums .
In that context, the most which could be said for Moore's "Law", is that it is more aptly categorized as, "Moore's observation", "Moore's conclusion", or perhaps, "Moore's best guess"..
((**)) Since a CPU's cutting edge lifespan is now claimed to be extending to four years (?), the only thing manufacturer's can do is bemoan the fact that, "Moore's utterance", is no longer generating planned obsolescence for them. (boo hoo, again, cue the violins)
