INTEL'S PAT GELSINGER is always good for quotability and he is very efficient at telling people the maximum amount of stuff in the minimum amount of time.

He is constantly shrinking the die.

But this quote from Pat beats anything we've ever heard from him.

"I compare Moore's Law to driving down the road on a foggy night, how far can you see? Does the road stop after 100 metres? How far can you go?

"That's what it's been like with Moore's Law. We thought there were physical limits and we casually speak about going to 10 nanometres. "We have work going on different transistor structures. Silicon has become scaffolding for the rest of the periodic table. We're putting these other structures into the materials. We see no end in sight and we've had 10 years of visibility for the last 30 years. "

What was also fun was when your own Charlie Demerjian picked up the pieces when another European journalist asked a question which slighly flummoxed Pat. Said Charlie: "I think I can answer that" and went on to answer the question. I looked at Pat on my left, and Charlie on my right, and thought to myself what the heck?