&gt; ...now that the low hanging fruit has long gone.<p>That begs the question of what we determine to be low-hanging fruit. An engineer in 2030 may look back on the time now and see the 2016 advancements as &#x27;low-hanging fruit&#x27; relative to their time. Unless you think there&#x27;s not much of a future in chip fabrication (in which case, you may want to tell Intel).<p>As I see it, Moore&#x27;s Law is a rough metric coined by someone almost half a century ago. Just because the metric is no longer relevant, that doesn&#x27;t mean the increase in complexity is slowing.