Moore's Law, which is the number of transistors in a chip would double about every two years, isn't cleanly dying like one might expect and instead is somewhat awkward and ongoing.
We have two brand new generations from AMD and Intel, neither of which really came out of the gate swinging.
Even within just a few years, the rate of performance improvements has slowed considerably.
AMD and Intel may not talk about it publicly, but both companies clearly see the writing on the walls.
That's likely why Intel pivoted to a hybrid architecture in the first place.
And for AMD's part, it's no secret that 3D V-Cache has become a defining technology for the company's CPUs, and it's a clear way to skirt the bottleneck of Moore's Law.
A function of space - You cannot separate the number of transistors from the size of the die.
Moore's Law is dead, PC hardware is getting more expensive, and everything sucks - that's not how I want to leave this.
But AI also represents a way to bring a new form of computing.
It really doesn't matter if Moore's Law is dead or alive and well - if companies like AMD, Intel, and Nvidia want to stay afloat, they'll continually need to think of solutions to address rising performance demands.