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Goodbye Moore's Law (again)?

Mr Moore's law has been pretty spot-on for decades now and the number of transistors per square inch of an integrated circuit's area has been doubling every year.

This means that we've gone from simple stuff like the 4004 back in 1971, with its mere 2300 transistors, to today's megalithic multi-cored CPUs such as the AMD 2990WX Threadripper with an astonishing 19.2 BILLION transistors.

Yes, that's right, there are more transistors in a single Threadripper 32-core CPU than there are people on the face of the planet Earth.

It's kind of sobering to think that, in terms of transistor-counts, we've gone from something equivalent to a rather small town, to something more populous than our own planet -- all in the span of less than 50 years.

So where to next?

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