"…even Intel is finding itself being slowly crushed by Moore's law… just to keep its revenue level, Intel must convince its customers to double their power every 18 months or to stick with its current offerings and find twice as many customers."
"…with Intel's R&D costs doubling every 18 months (apparently R&D follows Moore's law as well), in another 20 years the company's R&D costs will be $31 trillion annually. Something must give long, long before then [emphasis added]."
Did they actually give data / show graphs in the article, or simply throw out exponential functions willy nilly and expect people to just believe them?