The small blocker camps want you to believe that Moore’s Law is dead in the water. Unfortunately for them, this isn’t the case.

While it is true that at Intel they have hit some hurdles, but mainly because the costs vs benefit. As everything these gains comes in waves, when there is more demand for more growth, the supply will follow closely. Intel are lucky enough to have done prior research and development and have been riding on their laurels. The last few years Intel haven’t really released smaller chips, but have just made small gains improving their efficiencies and with their current 14nm lineup.

Other companies have picked up Intel’s where Intel is lacking. In this case it’s the big phone manufacturers pushing transistor growth into 2019. Huawei with their Kirin 980 chipset, Samsung outsourcing to Qualcomm with their Snapdragon 8cx and Apple with their A12 Bionic chip.

That all being said, Bitmain announced recently they are releasing a more efficient 7nm Bitcoin mining chip using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company’s FinFet technology.

Eric Martin has a fantastic more detailed article relating to this.