(05-07-2014, 03:09 AM)Drashner1 Wrote: If you mean limits of current technology, there are a number of interesting candidate technologies that could replace silicon chips in various ways and keep Moore's Law moving along for a good bit longer.
Technically Moore's Law might go the way of the dodo (so to speak) but that doesn't mean the end of computer development
just means that it won't be suitable to measure computer development in terms of transistor count, nor expect a regular doubling. Even if development slows because computer architecture is more difficult to improve (doubling transistor count on a 2D surface is a relatively easy improvement) we could see improvements in terms of better software and some developments are potentially radical enough to make a huge leap (e.g. universal memory). So Moore's law will probably die as a trend for computer development, the landscape after might be smooth or might have static periods and spurts.To be honest I'm partially hoping Moore's law does go away. Abundance is the enemy of efficiency and software bloat seems to be quite common. Operating systems have reached sizes of tens of gigabytes! If software developers cannot rely on ever increasing processor capability to run more complex applications software efficiency would have to be given far higher priority, allowing us to do more with less.