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The long curve beneath the AI boom: denser chips, compounding capability, and a remarkably durable scaling rule.

Scaling rule · selectable axis

~2×
reference doubling every two years

Moore’s Law

Observed microprocessor transistor counts compared with a reference path that doubles every two years.

DisclosedAs of Jul 21, 2026

The dashed line is a reference path, not a forecast. Rubin is a vendor-disclosed multi-die GPU package, so the datapoint is explicitly marked as a methodology break from OWID's historical microprocessor series.

OWID history + NVIDIA Rubin · Jul 21, 2026