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Moore's Law relates to transistor density on an IC. As far as I know there is no suggestion within Moore's Law that attempts in any way to predict consumer buy
by grannyg00se 15y ago
Moore's Law relates to transistor density on an IC. As far as I know there is no suggestion within Moore's Law that attempts in any way to predict consumer buying patterns or demand.
- lesterbuck 15y agoI'm not so sure you can disconnect Moore's Law from market demand. There is certainly no physical basis for Moore's Law. It is mainly an expression of the rate of capital investment and business profit cycles. It happens that spending the Moore's Law rate on R&D and new fabs approximately matches the profits needed to build the next cycle. If customers stopped needing more memory, for whatever reason, then the business investment cycle represented by Moore's Law would quickly come to a halt. Conversely, if there were a Manhattan Project style crash R&D effort that needed better memory chips, and lack of profit was no barrier, then the density could improve faster than Moore's Law for some time.