Slowing Moore’s Law: How It Could Happen · Gwern.net
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Weak points in the networks powering technological progress: chip factories
--- title: "Slowing Moore's Law: How It Could Happen" description: "Weak points in the networks powering technological progress: chip factories" created: 2012-03-16 modified: 2017-10-09 status: finished confidence: likely importance: 7 css-extension: dropcaps-kanzlei ... > [Brain emulation](!W) requires enormous computing power; enormous computing power requires further progression of [Moore’s law](!W); further Moore’s law relies on large-scale production of cheap processors in ever more-advanced [chip fabs](!W); cutting-edge chip fabs are both expensive and vulnerable to state actors (but *no
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