Salon: Moore’s law giveth, and Moore’s law taketh away. A little more than a year ago, in a post reviewing Taiwan’s charge into solar power, I wrote the following sentence: Few things are certain in this world, but if Taiwanese high-technology companies are betting on the future of solar power, then consumers can expect that prices will drop, fast. If ever there was a country whose citizens operated as if disobeying Moore’s Law was punishable by death, it would be Taiwan. …