And while the microchip world may be divided on whether or not Moore’s Law is actually dead ... have stood as a guiding principle of processor design for the last 60 years.

When does the golden rule of semiconductor scaling finally break? How small can a transistor be? And what in the world is "dark silicon?" Read on for an overview of Moore's Law.

There are many signs that indicate we are approaching the end of the Moore's law as we know it. As an example, the chart below illustrates the performance growth of CPU computing over time ...