Do we really need a road map? 18 to 24 months from now the processors will be twice as fast. It's called Moore's Law. That makes it a no-brainer.

Moores law says they COULD be twice as fast, the market and technology determines whether that actually happens.

Your definition of Moore's Law is incorrect. Moore's Law relates to the number of transistors and the chip production capacity, not the speed of a CPU. It helps if you have Microsoft's Encarta installed on your PC. This is the correct definition:
Moore's Law - noun
A prediction by Intel cofounder Gordon Moore in the early days of the computer revolution regarding the growth of semiconductor technology. Moore predicted that the number of transistors that could be put on a chip would double every year, and it did. Ten years later, Moore predicted that chip capacity would double every two years, and capacity has actually doubled every 18 months since then. The doubling of capacity every 18 months is popularly referred to as a "law."

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"Road map, Smode map - Sep 05, 2008 20:05
Do we really need a road map? 18 to 24 months from now the processors will be twice as fast. It's called Moore's Law. That makes it a no-brainer. "

Is that transistor density double about every 18 months. It does not say how fast processors will be or if that density will be used by hardware or software.