&gt; “So far as I know, there is no example of anything like this in any other industry, where every manufacturer and supplier gets together and figures out what they are going to do.” In effect, it converted Moore&#x27;s law from an empirical observation into a self-fulfilling prophecy: new chips followed the law because the industry made sure that they did.<p>Probably because in every other industry this would have been seen as anti-competitive behaviour.