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Forty Years of Moore's Law

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. Re:The Lesser Known Part 2 of Moore's Law... by aardwolf204 · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Incorrect. The amount of articles mentioning More's law will double every 18 months.

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