Where will Moore's Theory first be capped?

[wonderboy1953]

Moore's theory has held up very well during the years. But we all know there must be a point where it will come to an end, the question is when and where?

The where refers to some particular area or product. For example the internet is far short of its potential speed where I read it can be 100,000 times faster. How about printers or monitors or SSDs or games? (the hard drive is slowly becoming a dinosaur). And there are many other examples I haven't even touched upon.

What have you to say?

 

[CrayonMuncher]

You are aware moores law is in reference to the amount of tranistors per IC and that it would double every 18-24 months.

http://original.jamesthornton.com/theory/theory?theory_id=22

Internet and games do not have transistors, the hardware behind them does.
Transistor count is continuously rising and I would say it would be hard to predict exactly when the law would be no more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count

The hex core i7 had 1,170,000,000 and that was in 2010, the westmere ex has 2,600,000,000 and that was released in 2011.

Please note this is not an apples to apples comparision as the i7 and xeon are not the same. Just a rough reference.