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Here is a graph from Wikipedia data until the AMD 8-core Ryzen: https://twitter.com/azwinkau/status/869461530324107264

As soon as a plot like this shows a "stop", there will pop up lots of possibilities for research and funding thereof. Physical restrictions predict this stop within the next years.

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Except that Intel's own data show that the constant doubling no longer applies. I have no idea what he means by Wikipedia data. See no source there.

> I have no idea what he means by Wikipedia data.

I imagine it is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count

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