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Move Over Moore's Law, Make Way For Huang's Law (ieee.org)
Tekla Perry writes: Are graphics processors a law unto themselves? Nvidia's Jensen Huang says a 25-times speedup over five years is evidence that they are. He calls this the 'supercharged law,' and says it's time to start counting advances on multiple fronts, including architecture, interconnects, memory technology, and algorithms, not just circuits on a chip.
I think the attractive aspect of Moore's law was that it was simple and everyone got the general gist. Some people like to argue about the details but they mostly don't have anything else to do with their time.
I don't think we need a Huang's law. If you asks what Huang's Law is, everyone will just say it's like Moore's law except applied to GPU's.
Same applies to all those other people who want to name things after themselves.
Moore's Law: the density of devices (transistors) that can be packed into a microchip doubles roughly every 18 months.
Or phrased more colloquially, if partially inaccurately:
Moore's Law: every 18 months, the speed of hardware doubles.
Gates' Law: every 18 months, the speed of software halves.
Everyone gets a law now
Yes, that's the well known "Anonymous Coward's Law".