Semiconductor Miniaturisation Is Running Out Of Steam. Time To Focus On Smarter Algorithms

Transistors have brought a plethora of advances and growth in computer performance over the past few decades. These improvements in computer performance come from decades of miniaturisation of computer components, for instance, from a room-sized computer to a cellphone. For decades, programmers have been able to prioritise writing code quickly rather than writing it so that it runs quickly since smaller, faster computer chips have always been able to pick up the slack. In 1975, Intel founder Gordon Moore predicted the regularity of this miniaturisation trend, which is now called Moore's law -- the number of transistors on computer chips would double every 24 months. The researchers broke down their recommendations into the categories, they are software, algorithms, and hardware architecture as mentioned below.