Dennard scaling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Dennard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Dennard It's about the shrinking of MOSFETS that happene

Dennard scaling: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Dennard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_H._Dennard It's about the shrinking of MOSFETS that happened over the 35 years since he wrote about it. My electronics textbooks mentioned the scaling, but did not make this named attribution (perhaps just a bibliographic reference).