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Moore's Law is an observation made by Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit for minimum component cost doubles every 24 months. But it isn't too far ahead when memory chip makers will crash into the physics barrier wall - the limitations of the laws of physics and the technology based around silicon. Platters of silicon can contain hundreds of rectangles, each the size of a grain of rice, with each cell containing circuits etched at a width of 50 nanometers or 2000 times thinner that a human hair.

There will have to be a massive change of process. The next technology could well be one of the following: M-RAM, P-RAM (Phase change memory), molecular memory and carbon nanotubes. these new technologies will come to light in the next decade ushering in new processes and new processor and memory capabilities. Moore's Law would have a hard time keeping up, becuase of the shift in technology and processes. Here's to the future...

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