Is Moore’s Law Dead? Does It Need To Be Rewritten?

I’ve heard that one from many of my tech friends and Apple’s anemic increase in PowerBook CPU speed started the ball rolling.

Two years ago Apple introduced the 17-inch PowerBook at 1 ghz. I bought one. It’s a great machine. Once you try that much screen real estate you won’t go back. The new PowerBooks weigh in a 1.67 ghz. Two years. .67-ghz. That’s not much of an increase in two years.

So, whatever happened to Moore’s Law about computers doubling in power every two.... (excerpted).

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