Getting more from Moore's Law

[FOMz]

For more than 40 years the silicon industry has delivered ever faster, cheaper chips. The advances have underpinned everything from the rise of mobile phones to digital photography and portable music players.
Chip-makers have been able to deliver many of these advances by shrinking the components on a chip. By making these building blocks, such as transistors, smaller they have become faster and firms have been able to pack more of them into the same area.
But according to many industry insiders this miniaturisation cannot continue forever.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7080772.stm

[Ex-Bay]

Most of us have thought that for some years. . . . .

[The Masked Geek]

Moore's law will be long forgotten soon:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/uom-fqc082008.php

[8:15fromOdium]

I think this is a case where Clarke's first law applies:
'When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. '

This is pretty old news (http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/newsrelease/half-terahertz.htm), but it shows IBM and Georgia Tech have trialled .5 THz chips! Looking at some of the other tech news sites there are a lot of other breakthroughs on transmission of light and waveguide technologies that are making such machines feasible on the desktop within 5 years. This suggests Moores Law will be surpassed.