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Forty Years of Moore's Law

Posted by timothy on from the it's-only-a-suggestion dept.

kjh1 writes "CNET is running a great article on how the past 40 years of integrated chip design and growth has followed [Gordon] Moore's law. The article also discusses how long Moore's law may remain pertinent, as well as new technologies like carbon nanotube transistors, silicon nanowire transistors, molecular crossbars, phase change materials and spintronics. My favorite data point has to be this: in 1965, chips contained about 60 distinct devices; Intel's latest Itanium chip has 1.7 billion transistors!"

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  1. The Lesser Known Part 2 of Moore's Law... by Arcanix · · Score: 5, Funny

    The amount of articles mentioning Moore's law will double each year.

  2. Slashdot corollary by panaceaa · · Score: 4, Funny
    What about the Slashdot corollary? That is:
    Despite the fact that Moore's Law has been around for 40 years, and widely known about for almost as long, Slashdot will report about it at least once a month.
    It's almost as prevalent as the popular media corollary, which is:
    Popular media will always say that Moore's law is ending now, while ironically citing examples where such earlier predictions were premature.
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  3. Data point? No, two points! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    My favorite data point has to be this: in 1965, chips contained about 60 distinct devices; Intel's latest Itanium chip has 1.7 billion transistors!

    Uh, wouldnt that be two data points?

  4. Re:Keeping Count by rayde · · Score: 4, Funny

    they are just very, very small. ;)

  5. Moore's Law is Dead by snuf23 · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's buried right next to BSD, adjacent to the freshly dug grave for World of Warcraft.

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  6. Re:Typical /. Subject. by wahsapa · · Score: 4, Funny

    no, Murphys Law is eventually one day someone will make a cyborg police officer.

  7. Austin Powers by Infinityis · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can just see Dr. Evil now...

    "I demand the chip have...SIXTY TRANSISTORS!" (pinky lightly touches corner of mouth).

    The guys at Intel start laughing hysterically...

    "I've changed my mind...I demand the chip have...ONE POINT SEVEN BILLION TRANSISTORS!" (pinky lightly touches corner of mouth)

    Intel guys gasp in shock...

  8. Re:Keeping Count by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Portable Blackhole Technology(TM).
    Not to start a flamewar here, but AMDs Micro Singularity Architecture(TM) is vastly superior to intel's PBT.

  9. 40? by Chainsaw+Messiah · · Score: 4, Funny

    40th anniversary? That's weird, I swear just about a year and a half ago it was the 20th anniversary.