Intel executive says that though Moore’s Law is becoming challenging, it is by no means gone. Intel will advance Moore’s Law for the foreseeable future, but keeping up with it is becoming more challenging as chip geometries shrink, according to a company executive. Moore’s Law is based on a theory that the number of transistors that can be placed on silicon doubles every two years, which brings more features on chips and provides speed boosts. Using Moore’s Law as a baseline, Intel for decades has added more transistors while reducing the size and cost of a chip. The manufacturing advances help make smartphones, tablets and PCs faster and more power efficient.
But as chips get smaller, maintaining pace with Moore’s Law is perhaps more difficult today than it was in years past, said William Holt, executive vice president and general manager of Intel’s Technology Manufacturing Group, during a speech at the Jeffries Global Technology, Media, and Telecom Conference.