Moore's law is a historical trend of integrated circuit development: the density of transistors can be doubled every two years. It was posited by Gordon Moore in 1965. Several experts, including Moore himself, have predicted that the trend will end by 2025.
The chips are down for Moore’s law
The semiconductor industry will soon abandon its pursuit of Moore's law. Now things could get a lot more interesting.
Ubiquity: The Fallacy of Premature Optimization
Moore's Law makes it seem as if resource limitations are always a minor consideration. If there will be twice as much memory for the same price in 18 months, why bother to squeeze a factor of 2 from an application's memory requirements? If the CPU will be twice as fast by then, why bother to shave some running time from a program? In other words, why bother to optimize programs? Isn't it better to just get them running and let Moore's Law take us off the hook when resources are constrained? Randall Hyde argues that optimization is important even when memory and processor double regularly.
Wirth's law
Wirth's law is Niklaus Wirth's variant of the Jevons paradox: Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware is getting faster.
100 years of whatever this will be
What if all these weird tech trends actually add up to something? Last time, we explored why various bits of trendy technology are, in my o...
You have to beat the models at something
In 2025, I wrote that software engineers ought to be assessed by “value over replacement”: not how much money they made for their company, but how much they…
AI boom has caused same CO2 emissions in 2025 as New York City, report claims
Study author says tech companies are reaping benefits of artificial intelligence age but society is left to pay cost
More on whether useful quantum computing is “imminent”
These days, the most common question I get goes something like this: A decade ago, you told people that scalable quantum computing wasn’t imminent. Now, though, you claim it plausibly is immi…
Big Tech’s A.I. Spending Is Accelerating (Again)
Despite the risk of a bubble, Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon plan to spend billions more on artificial intelligence than they already do.
The state of the tech industry in 2026 - LDX3 New York
apple-silicon-llm-bench/results/complete_results.html at main · AlexHiesch/apple-silicon-llm-bench
Systematic LLM inference benchmark for Apple Silicon: 8 backends, 7 models, 791 measurements - AlexHiesch/apple-silicon-llm-bench
Intelligence Per Watt
From 1946 to 2009, computing efficiency—performance per watt—doubled every 1.5 years. This trend, documented by Koomey and colleagues, transformed where computing could happen. Workloads migrated from mainframe rooms to desktops, then laptops, then pockets. The transition from centralized time-sharing to personal computing didn't occur because PCs surpassed mainframes in raw performance. It occurred when efficiency gains made computing capable enough within the power constraints of personal devices.
Chromebook Market Size: Trends, Growth, and Forecast (2025-2034)
Introduction The Chromebook Market has emerged as a significant segment in the global education and enterprise computing sectors, offering affordable, cloud-based solutions. Chromebooks, powered by Google's Chrome OS, have gained popularity due to their simplicity, security, and cost-effectiveness.
It Was Never About Innovation
This is the first in a series of articles about innovation and open computing. Because it’s a holiday time of year in the USA, I’ve decided that these next few articles will be a detour…
DDC Enterprise buys 200 bitcoin in first 2026 treasury move
Shares climb more than 5% in pre-market trading as the company reinforces long term Bitcoin strategy.
