> […] we're at a bit of an inflection point where mooore's law has proved itself to be an scurve […]

Well. May's law[0], which states that:

  Software efficiency halves every 18 months, compensating Moore's Law.

effectively counterbalances Moore's Law and, with continued technological process improvements and optimisations, the proverbial arm's race is likely to continue for a very, very long time – just a few days I was reading a wonderful article from 1998 on the state-of-the-art DEC Alpha 21264 CPU which mentioned the 21264 and POWER3 as the world's most complex CPU's each boasting 15+ million transistors and also mentioned the equally state-of-the-art 0.18 micron processes. The 3 old year M3 Max design, in comparison, supplies over 90 billion transistors to the mainstream consumer.

Humans are resourceful, after all.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_May_(computer_scientist)...