Moore's Law can fail for the first time in History of Computing Power Growth!

Moore's Law is quite a famous and well known theory that one of the Intel's founding father's Gordon.E.Moore proposed. It said that processors size will be reduced and processing power will continue to rise every 2 years as the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years. I have seen this law prove itself in all these years I grew up seeing hardware/software evolve. 

Intel already have reached 22 nanometers scale size for the transistor. But now the challenge that has come up that how transistors can be made to so that they continuously shrink in size. All the nanolithography and  etching technologies that were evolved for the same seems to have been saturated and can no longer shrink the size of the transistors. Intel and other players in the market are already behind schedule to reduce the size to 18 nanometers and then 11 nanometers. According to a latest article in MIT Tech Review Magazine the same problem is being stated as a major concern for chip manufacturing companies worldwide.

Intel has tied up with ASML a nanoprecision intruments making company to evolve a new technology called EUV  lithography i.e. Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography. This technology holds the potential to further reduce the transistors size using ultraviolet light. But a major hurdle in this is the loss of light due to absorption of the light energy by the surrounding vacuum based systems. Whatever light is being thrown over a silicon compound is being lost and only 90% of it reaches the chip wafer. ASML is being largely funded by Intel to eradicate this problem and develop a solution so that a large number of chips can be manufactured at cheap costs. ASML's CFO has also urged other competitors in market like Samsung and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company to tie-up with partners in order to let the semiconductor lithography technology evolve and prevent the failing of Moore's Law for the first time in history. 

Currently as per all of the nano lithography technologies available for manufacturing processor chips at 22 nanometers level is not enough to bring the dimension further below atleast for 3 years in future. This will foresee a slight fall in the progress of processing power obtained. This would be a first instant since the discovery of transistors and Integrated Circuits that Moore's law pace will be reduced. Hoping that a new technology breakthrough in EUV lithography comes sooner. So that we are not devoid of growing processing power in future.