Re: Moore's law resuccitated
- From: Jerry Coffin <jcoffin@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 16:48:26 -0700
In article <1170017436.500340.246280@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
prtiglao@xxxxxxxxx says...
On Jan 27, 11:15 am, "santosh" <santosh....@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6299147.stm
It looks like Moore's law is going to be kept alive for some more
years.
When did Moore's law change into "double the amount of transistors"?
Last time I remembered it, it was double speed every year and a
half...
Gordon Moore's original statement was:
The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a
rate of roughly a factor of two per year ... Certainly over
the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not
to increase. Over the longer term, the rate of increase is a
bit more uncertain, although there is no reason to believe it
will not remain nearly constant for at least 10 years. That
means by 1975, the number of components per integrated circuit
for minimum cost will be 65,000. I believe that such a large
circuit can be built on a single wafer.
So, from the very beginning it's been about number of transistors, not
speed.
In case anybody wants to read his original paper that promulgated the
"law", it's available at:
http://download.intel.com/research/silicon/moorespaper.pdf
--
Later,
Jerry.
The universe is a figment of its own imagination.
.
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