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> Gordon Moore always emphasized that his “law” was fundamentally rooted in economics, not physics. Effectively, it was always more of a "marketing law" than a
by 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.