Re: Moore's law resuccitated

On Jan 28, 6:48 pm, Jerry Coffin <jcof...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1170017436.500340.246...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
prtig...@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.

Thanks for the insightful and useful responce, unlike some
other grumpy people around here...

Seems to be some kind of popular misconception however.
Now I'll be able to point it out to anyone else who says
otherwise.

--Dragontamer

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