As most of you know, Moore’s law is named for Gordon Moore, a co-founder of Intel.  In the mid 1960s he predicted that transistor computing power would double every 24 months.  Ultimately, the popular translation of this hypothesis, and subsequent predictions he made, was that in the development of computers, the power of the computer would double every 24 months and the price would decrease by half.  This became a truism in the PC business and for three decades proved to be true.

In recent years people started to suggest that perhaps Moore’s law had run its course.  Such exponential growth could not go on forever.  It started to settle in as fact that we were coming to the end of this remarkable development cycle.  We all now had computers that were infinitely faster and more powerful that the ones we first used 20-30 years ago and we were paying a fraction of the cost of these early machines.  So if Moore’s Law had run its course, that was ok as the low cost speed and power at our finger tips was just fine, thank you very much.

I have written here and here in this blog about innovations and breakthroughs that perhaps suggested that Moore’s Law was not yet dead and that burial was premature.  This week gave strong evidence that the ‘Law’ continues onward.  Intel announced that it has made a breakthrough that would allow chips to leak less current, paving the way for a new generation of …