Moores law articles

AI is getting cheaper faster than almost any technology in history

Bottom line: AI models are getting cheaper to use at a pace that could reshape the advanced software market. A report from research firm Epoch AI finds that the cost of reaching a given level of AI performance has fallen by nearly 50% per quarter, or about 13 times per year. That is a faster rate of decline than the cost curves seen in lithium-ion batteries, DNA sequencing and computing hardware.

Moore's law is hitting a wall, so researchers are stacking silicon chip layers instead of shrinking them

Forward-looking: For years, the chip industry has chased better performance by shrinking transistors and squeezing more of them onto a flat slice of silicon. That strategy is running into hard limits. A group at the University of Illinois thinks the next gains will come not from going smaller, but from going vertical.

AMD's Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 arrives as Intel scraps Core Ultra 9 290K Plus

Startup claims light-based chip could deliver 10x Nvidia's performance at similar power

First look: Light, not silicon, may define the next leap in computing power. That's the bet Austin-based startup Neurophos is making as it challenges the idea that Moore's Law still governs the pace of performance progress. The company is developing a photonics-driven processor designed to do what decades of transistor scaling can no longer achieve: massive compute throughput without a proportional explosion in energy use.

Ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger is back in chipmaking with an xLight deal worth up to $150M

The microchip era may be ending – and wafer-scale systems could be what comes next

TSMC's 2nm wafer prices hit $30,000 as SRAM yields reportedly hit 90%

In context: TSMC has steadily raised the prices of its most advanced semiconductor process nodes over the past several years – so much so that one analysis suggests the cost per transistor hasn't decreased in over a decade. Further price hikes, driven by tariffs and rising development costs, are reinforcing the notion that Moore's Law is truly dead.

Intel's origin story: Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce left which company to found Intel?

Rising power density and heat threaten the future of advanced semiconductors

Jensen Huang claims Nvidia's AI chips are outpacing Moore's Law

The real end of Moore's Law and the true cost of a monopoly

Breakthrough copper wiring solution could address 2nm chip challenges as shown by Applied Materials

Research team creates process to grow sub-nanometer transistors

Google IT hardware manager says Moore's Law has been dead for 10 years

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says Moore's Law isn't dead, but it has slowed down

Microsoft has an analog optical computer that doesn't use transistors to process data

AMD CEO Lisa Su says Moore's Law isn't dead, but has slowed down

Tech community mourns the loss of Intel co-founder Gordon Moore

Blurred lines: the difference between fabless and foundry companies

Moore's Law isn't dead according to AMD, but it has changed

The big picture: On multiple occasions in recent years, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has stated that "Moore's Law is dead" to defend GPU price increases. During a summit, AMD's chief technology officer, Mark Papermaster, disputed these repeated claims and detailed the true reasoning behind higher costs.

Home Depot for DIY Chips: What's the going trend?

The big picture: Earlier this year we were reviewing Analyst Day slides from leading semiconductor companies and a clear theme emerged. Large companies are all shifting in a similar direction, posing some potential challenges for their long-term positions. More and more customers are looking for special purpose chips, a coping mechanism for dealing with the slowdown in Moore's Law. And the big players are all looking to support those customers.

Nvidia's Jensen Huang once again claims Moore's Law is dead