Keeping up a Moore’s Law pace … with or without Moore’s Law

As a sign of its renewed focus on constructing and articulating a coherent strategy for the future, Intel recently held an industry analyst summit, the first in four years. The confluence of the slowing of Moore’s Law transistor scaling, a rapidly transitioning computing paradigm from distributed, local clients to data-rich clouds, and energized competition from competing providers of high-performance silicon (think AMD and Nvidia) — has heightened the pressure on Intel to plan its future in terms of imminent steps to take as well as positioning for the long term. While much of the summit centered on confidential information and