Barrett: Moore's Law Is Not Dead, Merely Resting
Peter Barrett · Inside the $4.5B Startup Building Brain-Inspired Chips for AI · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Feb 7, 2026 · at 3:38
Peter Barrett, General Partner at Playground Global, opens an event discussing the future of AI hardware and unconventional computing architectures.
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“We are not at the end of Moore's law. It's not dead. It's merely resting. There are ways of doing computation hitherto unimagined, right?”
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