Computerworld has made the strange claim that Moore's Law doesn't apply to the next generation of Intel's Atom chips.
It's logic is that since the Atom is low cost and low power but not significantly faster, it is defying Moore's law.
It says that the newer range of chips will run at 1.66 GHz. For users, that would be an imperceptible increase over the 1.6 GHz speed of most of today's Atom chips. Similarly, the graphics chip Intel is said to be planning to pair with the upcoming Atom CPUs will only be slightly faster than its existing one, Computerworld added.
Not surprisingly Intel has failed to mention its defying of Moores Law anywhere in the story. That is because Moore's Law states that the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit will increased exponentially, doubling approximately every two years. It does not mention speed at all. So far Moore's Law has been more or less on track while processing speed has grown a lot more slowly.