Re: Moore's law resuccitated

På Wed, 31 Jan 2007 07:03:23 -0000, skrev rhyde@xxxxxxxxxx <rhyde@xxxxxxxxxx>:

On Jan 28, 12:50 pm, "Dragontamer" <prtig...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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...

As others have pointed out, it has nothing to do with speed.

I would point out that his original paper said one year and he revised
this several years later to say two years. The "year and a half" value
was created by the media by averaging the two values. If you look at
the graphs, it has been following the "double every two years."

I read the original was 18 months. (Intel Pentium manual).


Cheers,
Randy Hyde




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