Moore's law

alternative Moore's Law

1. computingAn empirical observation that the density of transistors on a chip doubles every two years.

   How will industries and enterprises dependent upon and accustomed to Moore's Law continue to thrive? What might this disruption mean for society? And will the certainty of continued exponential change enshrined in Moore's Law ever become standard again?

   2015, Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, Rachel Jones, Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary, Hachette UK, →ISBN

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   The pocket calculator’s fortunes have fallen ever since. It is a victim of “Moore’s Law,” the theory that the number of transistors that can be squeezed on to a microchip will roughly double every two years, thereby increasing computing power at the same rate.

   2012 March 4, Alice Rawsthorn, “Farewell, Pocket Calculator?”, in The New York Times

1. Alternative letter-case form of Moore's law.

   CPU speeds continue to increase with no end in sight. For instance, Sun's UltraSPARC processor roadmap, shown in Figure 16-2, show CPU speed increasing from 143 MHz in 1995 to 1.5 Ghz in 2002, roughly doubling every year as predicted by Moore's Law.

   1999, Marc Hamilton, Software Development: Building Reliable Systems, Prentice Hall Professional, →ISBN, page 236