[Bsharp]

> After another three generations or so, chips will probably reach 5nm, and at that point there will be only 10 atoms from the beginning to the end of each transistor gate, he said. Beyond that, further advances may be impossible. "You can't build a transistor with one atom," Samueli said.

I don't get it - did people assume that chips could get infinitely small?

Seems pretty obvious that Moore's Law would fail at some point.

Disclaimer: I didn't know about this law before today so I'm probably ignorant of something.

[tedsanders]

Anyone with knowledge of transistors knows that transistors cannot scale forever. I imagine this point is emphasized for people who know nothing about transistors except their amazing history of scaling.

[gavinpc]

Not only that, but the law itself should predict its point of failure.