AMD's CEO on Moore's Law: 'Moore's law isn't dead, but clearly, advancements with each generation have slowed down.'

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Ngày cập nhật gần nhất: 15/4/2026

Recently, Dr. Lisa Su, CEO of AMD, had an interview with Barrons. Once again, our esteemed doctor reaffirmed that “Moore's Law” is still alive, albeit the rate of increasing transistors on a chip has changed over the years, meaning it has slowed down. Consequently, AMD is pivoting towards new technologies and techniques to deliver performance improvements in future generations of processors.

The viewpoint of AMD's CEO here echoes that of many other semiconductor players in the market, which is that new chip generations are yielding performance improvements and increasingly efficient power usage, albeit diminishing returns compared to previous leaps in progress. However, the demand for processing power never wanes, hence new technologies like chiplets or stacked 3D transistor die packaging are crucial innovations.

As mentioned, this isn't the first time Dr. Su has asserted that 'Moore's Law is not dead', often directly targeting the CEO of AMD's direct competitor, Nvidia. Every time Nvidia launches a new generation of GeForce RTX graphics cards, CEO Jensen Huang asserts that the legendary words of Intel's founder regarding the pace of semiconductor transistor density growth, synonymous with the processing power of each new chip generation, no longer hold true. Most recently, with the release of RTX 4090 and 4080, Jensen Huang made a similar proclamation:

With increasing production costs, Nvidia's CEO asserts that the performance improvements of the new process have slowed to a threshold. In some cases, such as GPUs, the only way to significantly enhance processing power is to push a lot of power into the silicon die. That's how Jensen Huang explains why the RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 are both expensive and power-hungry. AMD itself has expressed concerns that by 2025, GPUs released to the market will consume around 700W of power.

In reality, upon closer examination, both Dr. Su and Director Huang's statements bear some similarities, but they use those same phrases to explain two entirely different product development directions. While Nvidia remains with monolithic chip die design, leveraging new manufacturing processes and a balance of voltage and frequency for performance improvements, AMD introduced its first consumer x86 GPU generation last year utilizing chiplet design, despite having several Ryzen CPU generations prior applying a similar solution.

Returning to the essence of Moore's Law itself. In 2005, Intel's founder and the father of the law, Gordon Moore, also expressed doubts about whether both the size and spacing of transistors could continue to shrink indefinitely, especially the accuracy of this law beyond 2025.

According to Techspot

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