Since the invention of the integrated circuit in 1958 (in seven years), the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has increased exponentially, doubling approximately every two years.
Since the invention of the integrated circuit in 1958 (in seven years), the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has increased exponentially, doubling approximately every two years.
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Moore’s law
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Moore’s law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware. Since the invention of the integrated circuit in 1958, the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has increased exponentially, doubling approximately every two years. The trend was first observed by Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore in a 1965 paper. It has continued for almost half of a century and is not expected to stop for another decade at least and perhaps much longer.
Almost every measure of the capabilities of digital electronic devices is linked to Moore’s law: processing speed, memory capacity, even the number and size of pixels in digital cameras. All of these are improving at (roughly) exponential rates as well. This has dramatically increased the usefulness of digital electronics in nearly every segment of the world economy. Moore’s law describes this driving force of technological and social change in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits
by Gordon E. Moore
http://web.eng.fiu.edu/npala/EEE5425/Gordon_Moore_1965_Article.pdf
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~fussell/courses/cs352h/papers/moore.pdf