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MOORE'S LAW

"the number of transistors that can fit economically onto a single silicon chip is doubling every 18 months."  Laudon & Laudon (4 ed), p.221.

In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore predicted transistor density on microprocessors would double every two years. This prediction, so far, has proven amazingly accurate. If it continues, Intel processors should contain between 50-to-100 million transistors by the turn of the century and execute 2 billion instructions per second. To meet that challenge, Intel is already developing new techniques to fabricate these complex processors.

 

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