Researchers predict that Moore's Law will get a new lease on life through this decade because of nanotechnology.
A semiconductor engineer predicted that Moore's Law will hold true until at least 2024.
CERN researchers are turning to "Grid Computing" to achieve their goal of a "thousand times more computing power by 2006." They are developing the distributed-computing network to help process the 10 petabytes of data likely to be generated by the Large Hadron Supercollider.
In the world of computer chips, Moore's Law is becoming less of an axiom and more of a drag race. At the world's premier chip design conference, which begins here today, the spotlight will be on blinding computer speed. That emphasis suggests that the trajectory of desktop PC performance increases of the last two years will not slow in the near future, but actually accelerate.
After four decades of remarkably steady progress, advances in computer-chip technology seemed in danger of slowing. Not anymore, thanks to the development of the 'extreme ultraviolet' light technique for producing semiconducter chips.
Both IBM and Intel have recently announced advances in computer chip design that will make chips faster and stretch Moore's law even further.
Biotechnology researchers met in San Francisco to discuss the implications of the biotechnology revolution over the next 20 years. They estimate that the biotechnology industry is where the internet was five years ago and that the same laws that led to the explosive growth of the internet, Moore's Law and Metcalfe's Law, will also accelerate the speed of progress in the biotech industry.