The miracle of the digital age is not just Moore's Law, because Moore's Law only predicts burgeoning supplies of MIPs and RAM.
The cheap revolution is a first-order effect of Moore's Law. (Moore's Law predicts the transistor density on silicon chips will double every 18 to 24 months.) For years if you said "Moore's Law, " people presumed you were describing a future of ever more powerful computers.
It's the first-order effect of Moore's Law--the flip side of Gordon Moore's formulation.
Gordon Bell, who was one of the great figures of Digital Equipment and is now at Microsoft, propounded Bell's Law, which is sort of a corollary of Moore's Law that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every 18 months or so.
The explosive growth of the Internet is reminiscent of Moore's Law (named for Gordon Moore, the physicist, entrepreneur and now Intel billionaire).
Moore's Law, advanced by Gordon Moore, an Intel founder, says that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years, creating ever more powerful--and cheaper--electronic devices.
That invention sent computer performance on a rocket-like trajectory upward, its ascent governed by what became popularly known as Moore's Law, after Intel founder Gordon Moore who coined it.
Moore's Law, named after Intel founder Gordon Moore, says the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years, creating ever-more-powerful and cheaper electronic devices.
"Let's bring in the neurobiologists, hook their ideas to Moore's Law and have fun!"
There's no reason in the world that MRI scanning technology can't ride the same Moore's Law cost curve, going down 50% every 18 months.
And medical-malpractice lawyers have built some of the most lucrative legal practices in the U.S.--even in the face of laws trying to limit their fees (see " Moore's Law").
Likewise, accepting Moore's Law (and its equivalents in storage and bandwidth) is not easy.
Not in the semiconductor industry where brutal price cuts, la Moore's law, are the norm.
Experts have long predicted that this leakage, or "tunneling, " would bring Moore's Law to a halt.
Moore's Law proved to be a force that nearly flattened both IBM and DEC.
It took about ten years for Moore's Law to deliver the first personal computers.
But now that telephony is going digital, it will be sucked into Moore's Law.
But Xerox knew that Moore's Law would soon deliver the goods, and then, boom, good-bye IBM.
No one is talking of Moore's Law a doubling of capacity every 18 months or so.
If you remember one thing about this column, let it be the flip side of Moore's Law.
It is progressing at a pace on the order of FOUR TIMES the pace of Moore's Law.
Networking speeds--gigabits per second--go up exponentially, just the way computing power goes up exponentially under Moore's Law.
That is certainly nothing to scoff at, but it is only a fraction of Mr Moore's law.
Even when the size limit is reached and Moore's law stops, other tricks will keep microchips improving.
The digital-bandwidth tornado is likely to remake the landscape far more quickly and rudely than Moore's Law did.
By the early 2000s Moore's Law had crammed enough zip into PCs to turn them into multimedia machines.
Listen to a billionaire explain why an understanding of Moore's Law is a key to unlocking business riches.
Projecting from Moore's Law, venture capitalist Valentine saw a future of personal computers, games, routers and search engines.
It needed only to wait a few years, until Moore's Law made chips a little faster and cheaper.
Moore's Law inevitably will drive transistor widths below the 0.18-micron diameters now requiring all these fancy light tricks.
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