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The Claim

Moore's Law, which predicts the doubling of transistors on integrated circuits approximately every two years, has effectively ended as of March 2026.

The Short Version

The evidence supports that classical transistor-density doubling has slowed significantly and become less predictable, but it does not support the claim that Moore's Law has "effectively ended" as of March 2026. Multiple authoritative 2026 sources — including imec, TechInsights, and industry roadmaps — describe ongoing 2nm-era scaling and characterize the trend as evolving or transforming rather than terminated. The claim overstates a real slowdown into a definitive, time-stamped conclusion that the available evidence does not warrant.

Caveats

  • The claim treats Moore's Law as binary (active or ended), but most expert sources describe it as slowing or transforming — not definitively ceased.
  • No industry-wide data establishes that transistor-density doubling stopped by March 2026; contemporaneous roadmaps from TSMC, Intel, and Samsung still project continued node progress at 2nm and beyond.
  • The claim does not specify which definition of Moore's Law it uses (transistor density, cost per transistor, performance per dollar), making the 'ended' assertion ambiguous and harder to verify.

The Receipts

  1. Semiconductor Scaling at 2nm and Beyond: New Tradeoffs in 2026 - IndexBox

    IndexBox

  2. The Future of Semiconductor Scaling: Beyond 2nm Chips (Market Trends & Growth Data)

    Google Cloud

  3. End of the road for Moore's Law: What's next? - ARU

    ARU

  4. Is Moore's law dead? | imec

    imec

  5. Scaling Turns Into More-Than-Moore | TechInsights

    TechInsights

  6. Emerging Semiconductor Technology Trends 2026: AI, Chiplets, EUV & Market Impact

    electronicsmedia.info

  7. What Is Moore's Law? Is It Dead? - Built In

    builtin.com

  8. Moore's Law: The Beginnings - ECS

    The Electrochemical Society

  9. The Future of Moore's Law: Are We Nearing the Limit? (Latest Semiconductor Trends)

    PatentPC

  10. How long will Moore's Law last? - Electronic Specifier

    Electronic Specifier

+ 4 more sources — see the full list on Lenz

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Moore's Law