Transistor counts keep going up although clock speeds and single core performance peaked starting ten years ago. Check out this graphic:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.extremetech.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;DennardScaling.png" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.extremetech.com&#x2F;wp-content&#x2F;uploads&#x2F;2014&#x2F;09&#x2F;Dennar...</a><p>Since then there has been an explosion in number of cores. Seems like coding for distributed systems is the way to go. I suspect that increasing the transistor count will remain beneficial to things like scientific computing and machine learning.