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Moore's Law
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The empirical observation, first stated by Gordon Moore in a 1965 paper, that the number of transistors that can be fit onto an integrated circuit doubles at a roughly regular interval (originally yearly, revised to about every two years in 1975) for similar cost. Not a law of physics but an industry expectation, it nonetheless drove decades of semiconductor investment and became computing's standard shorthand for the rapid growth of raw hardware capability.
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Core PrincipleTransistor density on an integrated circuit grows exponentially over time at a roughly fixed doubling interval, for roughly constant manufacturing cost, so computing capability per dollar grows exponentially as well. 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years, with minimal increase in cost.
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the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years.
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