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Roughly every two years, the density of transistors that can be fit onto a silicon chip doubles. No. Moore's law is not about density. It's just about the numb
by CalChris 1y ago
Roughly every two years, the density of transistors that can be fit onto a silicon chip doubles.
No. Moore's law is not about density. It's just about the number of transistors on a chip. Yes, density increases but so does die size. Anyways, in Moore's own word:
The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year.
http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/moore-crammingmorecomponents.pdf http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/moore-crammingm...
- flomo 1y ago> Gordon Moore always emphasized that his “law” was fundamentally rooted in economics, not physics. Effectively, it was always more of a "marketing law" than an engineering one. Semiconductor chips only had 18-36 months to reap big profits, so Intel tried to stay ahead of that curve.
- eru 1y ago> Effectively, it was always more of a "marketing law" than an engineering one. Yes, but the engineering still has to be feasible. If Henry Ford had coined a similar law about eg the power of car engines, that might have been interesting marketing, but it doesn't mean Ford and the car industry could have sustained that for as long as Moore's law held.
- Symmetry 1y agoThat's a common misconception. Moore's 1965 paper was about economics but when the phrase "Moore's Law was coined in 1975 it was referring to Dennard Scaling as a whole. https://hopefullyintersting.blogspot.com/2019/03/what-is-moores-law.html https://hopefullyintersting.blogspot.com/2019/03/what-is-moo...