Douglas_Knight comments on Stupid Questions September 2015 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Douglas_Knight 22 September 2015 08:44:01PM 0 points [-]

No, companies are too complicated. To address your particular example, Intel has three advantages over its competitors. One is that it pushes the boundary of Moore's law, the one point you are interested in. But the other two are that it is probably the best in the world at arranging transistors and that it has close to a monopoly on the 386 architecture, and thus inertia. Even if Moore's law did break down, it is not clear how long it would take for the competitors to catch up.