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Jim Keller: Moore’s Law is Not Dead

UC Berkeley EECS · talk · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

Jim Keller gives a UC Berkeley EECS colloquium arguing that Moore's Law is not dead. He surveys upcoming technologies and the multiple innovation curves that can keep transistor density and performance scaling.

Why Hacker News recommends it

The go-to citation in Moore's Law threads, a convincing counterargument from a top CPU designer.

  • 7 people recommended it
  • 8 different months
  • 2 strong recommendations
  • first 2019, last 2025

What HN commenters said

  1. “It is worth watching Jim Keller's lecture at UC Berkeley literally titled "Moore's law is not dead".”

    Keller argues multiple technology S-curves keep Moore's law alive

    systemvoltage, 2021-12 · Strong recommendation · in “Moore's Law, AI, and the pace of progress”

  2. “gave a convincing presentation several years ago about just how not-true it is”

    Convincing presentation by a top CPU designer refuting Moore's law's death

    timschmidt, 2025-12 · Strong recommendation · in “DeepSeek-v3.2: Pushing the frontier of open large language models [pdf]”

  3. “There's a good talk by him about how Moore's law isn't dead”

    Keller argues other innovation curves keep processor progress going

    lliamander, 2019-10 · Recommendation · in “AMD Rome – is it for real? Architecture and initial HPC performance”

  4. “Very impressive guy.”

    Jim Keller's Berkeley talk on Moore's law not being dead

    WillPostForFood, 2019-11 · Recommendation · in “AMD is having its day”

  5. “You should defintely check it out if have time.”

    New transistor tech and architecture to extend Moore's law another decade

    aklascheema, 2019-12 · Recommendation · in “Intel’s Manufacturing Roadmap from 2019 to 2029”

  6. “It really illustrates how many more options we have to improve performance.”

    Shows how many more options exist to improve performance

    JB_Dev, 2023-12 · Recommendation · in “ASML and Samsung seal deal on 2nm chips”

  7. “where he summarized a bunch of up and coming technologies that will enable the continued scaling of transistor density”

    Keller surveys upcoming technologies enabling continued transistor density scaling

    gfody, 2024-03 · Recommendation · in “Moore on Moore – The past, present and uncertain future of Moore's Law”

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Topics: jim keller, semiconductors, cpu architecture, transistor scaling, chip design

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