The corollary to Moores law, that computers get twice as fast every 18 months, died by 2010. People who didn't live through the 80s, 90s and early 00s, where you'd get a computer ten times as fast every 5 years, can't imagine what it was like back then.

Today the only way to scale compute is to throw more power at it or settle for the 5% per year real single core performance improvement.