The first clues of a major change in computing occurred sometime in 2012, as Moore’s law started stalling out and developers of deep learning realized that genera-purpose central processing units or CPUs used in conventional computers could not meet such needs.
 

Since the mid-1960s, the solid-state industry has been guided by Moore's law-forecasts made by the co-founder of microprocessor giant Intel, Gordon Moore, that ever-shrinking devices will result in enhanced computing performance and energy efficiency.

Essentially, as specified in a report published in Nature, solid-state computing has had a long run since the 1950s, when transistors started to replace vacuum tubes as the key element of electronic circuits.

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