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Wanted: Moore's Law for Another 40 Years
When you fight the law, you'll usually lose... at least that's what happens when you fight Moore's Law, an industry axiom that states that the number of transistors on a chip will roughly double ap...
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45 nm scale transistors are now standard and 32 nm scale demo chips are being fabbed
20 nm is expected in 3 to 5 years
Somewhere around 10 nm there are fundamental physical limits.
This means:
Depending on the doubling time for the number of transistors (i.e.2 or 3 years) the end is 10 to 15 years from now.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's some molecule that can act as a transistor. There's already talk of using electrons (not atoms, electrons) for memory storage.