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Jim Keller: Moore’s Law is Not Dead
Jim Keller gives a UC Berkeley EECS colloquium arguing that Moore's Law is not dead. He surveys upcoming technologies and the multiple innovation curves that can keep transistor density and performance scaling.
Why HN readers recommended it
The go-to citation in Moore's Law threads, a convincing counterargument from a top CPU designer.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- UC Berkeley EECS
- Topic
- moore's law
- Format
- talk
- Level
- intermediate
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 7
- HN mentions in dataset
- 17
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2025
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From the original HN conversations
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They've been saying Moore's law is dead for 20+ years. Reasons usually quoted for Moore's law's death are quite narrowly focused on a particular technology stack, whereas semiconductor fabrication happens on a complex web of technologies all moving forward with their own S-curves. It is …
systemvoltage on Hacker News · 2021-12
In Moore's Law, AI, and the pace of progressSomeone always crawls out of the woodwork to repeat this supposed "fact" which hasn't been true for the entire half-century it's been repeated. Jim Keller (designer of most of the great CPUs of the last couple decades) gave a convincing presentation several years ago about …
timschmidt on Hacker News · 2025-12
In DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]There's a good talk by him about how Moore's law isn't dead: [VIDEO] . Obviously, people have different ideas about what they mean when they say "Moore's law is/is not dead", but I appreciate Jim's point that even if the current innovation curves we've been …
lliamander on Hacker News · 2019-10
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