Will Moore's Law Fail? (Score 1)

I read an article recently that highlighted the
difficulties of maintaining the Moore's Law
momentum. Basically, it was the quantum-effect
problem retold, and suggesting that there may
be a flat spot coming while these difficulties
are overcome. However, the article also
suggested that the mass market for processors
may have to shift away from computing devices
and into more general appliances in order to
keep the economic momentum going.

I happen to believe that there will be a
relatively small (one or two year) glitch in
the curve, but that the push will continue
all the way down to nano eventually.

As to the economics of CPU (memory/IO/storage)
production - there are an awful lot of people
who still have no personal access to the
technology that we (the Slashdot We) take for
granted.