Samsung Wants Moore's Law End, Analyst Says

Alan Patterson, Correspondent, EE Times
2/24/2015 10:57 AM EST

Rather than fearing the future, Samsung may be looking forward to inventing it.

Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest smartphone maker, may be looking forward to the end of Moore’s Law as a way to gain a new competitive edge, according to Mehdi Hosseini, an analyst with Susquehanna International Group.

Moore’s Law, the observation by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965 that the number of transistors per surface area on a semiconductor doubles every year may be on its last legs, according to a KPMG survey of industry executives.

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