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What do you think about Moore's law?

 
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SuperFly



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 6:12 pm    Post subject: What do you think about Moore's law? Reply with quote

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

Moore's Law describes an important trend in the history of computer hardware: that the number of transistors that can be inexpensively placed on an integrated circuit is increasing exponentially, doubling approximately every two years.[1] [2] The observation was first made by Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore in a 1965 paper.[3][4] The trend has continued for more than half a century and is not expected to stop for a decade at least and perhaps much longer.[5]

Almost every measure of the capabilities of digital electronic devices is linked to Moore's Law: processing speed, memory capacity, even the resolution of LCD screens and digital cameras. All of these are improving at (roughly) exponential rates as well. This has dramatically changed the usefulness of digital electronics in nearly every segment of the world economy.[6] Moore's Law describes this driving force of technological and social change in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
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Juregen



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PostPosted: Tue Nov 06, 2007 9:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moore's Law is mostly an effect of the physics.

The same happened with boats, every time technology improved, the carrying capacity of the boat increased significantly.

The same goes now with computer technology, it will all depend on how far physics will allow us to go.

The biggest issue these days is the capacity of the Batteries for mobile computing.
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