There&#x27;s another point, however. Moore&#x27;s law is the basic premise around which a lot of the economy is now built. We design systems and software knowing that a predictable efficiency will be gained in X months. This is important to both back end and front end compute. For example, when the largest data centers in the world (e.g. Amazon) roll in a new series of hardware, we expect that the cost of X resources should be cheaper in 12 months compared to today.<p>On the front end, as we figure out what makes a phone more &quot;sticky&quot; we expect that battery life must continue to increase, despite the fact that the device is now always listening, always recording our steps and activity, in constant contact with a radio base station thousands of feet away, and has the same number of pixels as an HDTV, which itself is now obsolete when compared to 4K displays.<p>One of the points of the original article is that this continued increase in efficiency can continue (and therefore the Intel business model can continue to be viable). They&#x27;re having no to throw a supercomputer at the problem, among other things, however.