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Samsung Wants Moore's Law End, Analyst Says

Rather than fearing the future, Samsung may be looking forward to inventing it.

by Alan Patterson, Correspondent, EE Times, Feb. 24, 2015 – 

Samsung Electronics, the world's largest smartphone maker, may be looking forward to the end of Moore's Law as a way to gain a new competitive edge, according to Mehdi Hosseini, an analyst with Susquehanna International Group.

Moore's Law, the observation by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in 1965 that the number of transistors per surface area on a semiconductor doubles every year may be on its last legs, according to a KPMG survey of industry executives.

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