"Scaling is dead"?

[Sunner]

Just saw this over at Ace's.
Article(eetimes.com)

Im curious to see what people in-the-know think about this?
Will this be yet another barrier that will be breached shortly with the help of new technologies, or in other words, business as usual as far as consumers are concerned?

Or will this actually stop progress in the performance department, if only temporarily, while the poor fellas over at Intel, AMD, IBM, etc try to think of new ways?

 

[GoHAnSoN]

this is practically true, unless some breakthrough in material used to make ic

 

[f95toli]

I think it is true.
I heard the same thing at a talk by another guy from IBM at a nanodeveloper conference a couple of years ago.