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Moore's Law
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Moore's Law /morz law/ /prov./ The observation that the
logic density of silicon integrated circuits has closely followed
the curve (bits per square inch) = 2^((t - 1962)) where
t is time in years; that is, the amount of information storable on
a given amount of silicon has roughly doubled every year since the
technology was invented. This relation, first uttered in 1964 by
semiconductor engineer Gordon Moore (who co-founded Intel four
years later) held until the late 1970s, at which point the doubling
period slowed to 18 months. It remained at that value through time
of writing (late 1995). See also Parkinson's Law of Data.
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