In recent years, global photovoltaic (PV) production has been increasing at a rate of 50 percent per year, so that accumulated global capacity doubles about every 18 months. The PV Moore's law states that with every doubling of capacity, PV costs come down by 20 percent.

Entrepreneurs have long sought markets that can drive enough demand for space transportation to stimulate investment in new low-cost vehicles. David Hoerr argues that the issue is not new markets, but creating a
large enough supply of space transports.

Many space advocates believe that space access is poised for a
revolutionary advance along the lines of microprocessors. Michael
Turner believes that a Moore's Law for spaceflight is by no means
inevitable.

The life of the silicon chip industry may last 10 or more years longer, thanks to a new manufacturing process using carbon nanotubes developed by NASA scientists.

The first supercomputers to approach and even surpass the processing power of the human brain are to be built by IBM, under a contract announced by the US Government.

Engineers have crossed a symbolic barrier with a new way to make microchips with transistors that are a thousand times smaller than the width of a human hair or as small as a flu virus. The 90-nanometre width is regarded as a major milestone because scientists believe it will eventually lead to the production of transistors with atomic level dimensions.

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.