Moore's Law Now Scales Price, Not Access

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A dark-mode X screenshot shows the verified account "Theo - t3.gg" (@theo, "1h") introducing "New Moore's law." The centered post reads, "The cost to buy a chip doubles approximately every 2 years, while the number of people who can afford them drops by 50%," with 43 replies, 81 reposts, 1.2K likes, and 26K views shown below. The joke reverses the familiar observation that transistor counts historically doubled on roughly a two-year cadence without equivalent cost growth, replacing technological democratization with exponential price inflation and shrinking access. In its June 2026 setting, it also reads as satire of AI-era demand, scarce advanced silicon and memory, and hardware prices increasingly aimed at data-center budgets rather than individual developers.