Setting aside the obvious apples-to-oranges problem with this pairing, The Economist<\/em> is just the latest in a long list media outlets to warn ominously about the end of Moore\u2019s Law. Though that\u2019s not a conclusion that appears to keep my boss, Mentor Graphics\u2019 CEO Wally Rhines, up at night. In an April 12 blog post<\/a> on Scientific American<\/em>, Wally makes his case why the declining cost per switch will continue well into the future thanks to the learning curve, the theory that underpinned Gordon Moore\u2019s original observation and that surely will outlive it. Wally was similarly optimistic when interviewed by The New York Times<\/em> last fall<\/a> on the topic.<\/p>\n Figure 1. The learning curve suggests the basics of Moore’s Law will continue beyond the IC era (Mentor Graphics)<\/p><\/div>\n This is good news in a host of contexts far beyond computers and phones, and especially when it comes to the automotive industry. That business is being transformed in astonishing fashion, largely due to ever more powerful and less expensive ICT. While we still get clever comparisons to Moore\u2019s Law suggesting cars are something of an innovation backwater, you can rapidly expose that as a laughable idea simply by casual observation of the changing mix of vehicles on the roads. Meanwhile, I\u2019ll give you one guess as to which company was named the world\u2019s most innovative<\/a> in 2015 by Forbes<\/em>.<\/p>\n I\u2019m loathe to pick too much on the press, which generally does yeoman\u2019s work and has been disrupted more than most by Moore\u2019s Law. Still, I can\u2019t resist some (lighthearted) tweaking.<\/p>\n![\"Figure](\"https:\/\/www.techdesignforums.com\/practicefiles\/2016\/04\/MG_Macleod_EI_MooresLaw.png\")
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