Moore's Law Turns 40
NPR does a good little backgrounder on Moore’s law… I was surprised they didn’t touch on the short term multi-core solution in favor of much longer term nanotubes… Chalk it up to general interest news I’d guess
Moore 's Law and Innovation, 40 Years Later
by Laura Sydell
Morning Edition, April 18, 2005 · Tuesday marks 40 years since Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel, predicted the number of transistors on a silicon chip would double about every 18 months. That prediction has held true and has resulted in progressively smaller, faster computers. But engineers worry that Moore's Law may not last forever.
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- Anonymous
April 18, 2005
IT Conversations just posted a chat with Gordon Moore about this.
<a href="http://www.itconversations.com/shows/detail501.html>Find it here.</a>