ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the fundamental limits to Moore's law and discusses directions that could effectively help circumvent these limits. The era of Moore's law was limited by the von Neumann bottleneck, which is that the speed of computing is limited by the separation of information processing and storage, a fundamental property of the von Neumann architecture. Digital or Boolean logic performs high-precision floating point operations, but compromises on the speed of convergence. Hence, the end of Moore's law is far more exciting than the beginning of Moore's law. People are now faced with open directions for research and innovations to create the future paradigms of all computing technologies. The manufacturing of integrated circuits using electronic components such as the transistor, which started in the 1960s, is probably the most important revolution to date in the field of computer science. The chapter also presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in this book.
