Moore’s Law is not Dead, but Gordon Moore, RIP (aged 94, January 3, 1929 – March 24, 2023)

Moore’s Law’s has been rewritten by journalists throughout the decades. Few today realize that Moore’s Law’s original stated formulation had nothing to do with clock speeds or circuit sizes, but rather:

“complexity for minimum component costs”

Now, “minimum component” has changed many times throughout the decades, as indicted by the vague wording in this original formulation, so the best general translation of this concept, in a way that ignores the particular component type and further solidifies the meaning of complexity, is then:

“calulations / second @ $1 spent”

In 1965, when Moore’s Law was coined, it had already been holding strong for ~65 years, across many technology regimes,

(1) Rooms full of human “computers”
(2) Mechanical like Babbage’s
(3) Relays
(4) Vacuum Tubes
(5) Discrete Transistors
— Moore’s Law Coined —
(6) Integrated Circuits
(7) Quantum?

Since then, in the 58 years since Moore’s Law was coined, it has continued to hold, near-perfectly.

In the future, Moore’s law will continue to enter new regimes, as it already has many times in the past, perhaps quantum next, but the law will never die.

It has been said that "The number of people predicting the death of Moore’s Law doubles every two years."

I say "The number of people trying to redefine Moore's Law from its original intent doubles every two years."

Moore's Law slowdown was always a willful lie, told by journalists and attention-seekers fully-aware of their lies.

Few willing to grasp the consequences of unending exponential growth.