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Moore's Law was never a law — and now it's running out

Original: Moore's Law was never a law: a 1965 observation that became an industry target. Now silicon and quantum mechanics set th

Gordon Moore's 1965 observation that transistor counts double roughly every two years was never a physical law, but an industry target companies chased for decades. Now silicon limits and quantum effects are capping miniaturisation. Researchers at the University of Illinois are exploring monolithic 3D integration — stacking transistor layers directly on top of each other, up to three so far — as one path forward.

Why now: Discussion of how to keep chip performance improving as transistor scaling approaches physical limits.

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• Moore's Law was never a law: a 1965 observation that became an industry target. Now silicon and quantum mechanics set the limits. One way forward: monolithic 3D integration. UIUC researchers fabricate transistor layers directly on top of each other (up to three so far), with an… · skikk

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