This great article supports that. http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/design...

		dougmany on July 9, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: IBM says it has made working versions of 7nm chips This great article supports that. http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/design/the-death-of-... It has a great graph of engineering effort vs Moore's law which made it cheaper to just wait for a faster chip then put in the effort.