Intel quietly admits that it’s struggling with Moore’s Law

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by Sindy Cator on July 16, 2015 at 9:17 am

Is Moore’s Law finally faltering? Intel has confirmed today that its next generation of processors called “Kaby Lake” will be built using its existing 14-nanometer process. It was expected the company would shrink its processor size down to 10-nanometers next year after the release of the next-generation ‘Skylake’ chipset. Moore’s Law, an observation from co-founder of Intel in 1965, says that the number of transistors on a chip roughly doubles every two years. Intel’s CEO, Brian Krzanich, admitted on the company’s investor call yesterday that its first ‘Cannonlake’ product built at 10-nanometers has been delayed to 2017. Instead, the company will build a third set of processors on…