Moore's Law
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Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years. Moore's law is an observation and projection of a historical trend. Rather than a law of physics, it is an empirical relationship linked to gains from experience in production.
Moore's Law(Q178655) presented an explicit connection between the physical size of computing devices can have direct impact in economics and society. It actually means there is a consensus mechanism in a societal or supply chain-level to predict or assert the physical spatial and temporal size of one bit could be. It is such a penetrating principle, according to Moore[1]: "One may think of Moore's Law being the violation of Murphy's Law."
The Trans-disciplinary Nature of of Moore's Law
Moore's Law[2] is probably the first law that directly relates experimental data to industrial values of spacetime across all scales. Although, it has been challenged that the semi-conductor industry will not be able to continue deliver the doubling of transistor density indefinitely, but the basic notion of mapping the ability to massively coordinate devices at smaller physical scales has direct societal and economical implications is still valid. In that sense, this is the most powerful insight of Moore's Law, being able to succinctly demonstrate the causal relations between physical meaning of data processing, its implication to economic activities, and its influence in the workflow of knowledge creation. Moore's Law is one of the few instances of modern civilization that the founder of this vision that explicitly linked and implemented the theory in practice at this trans-disciplinary scale.
Related Literature
A biography[3] on Gordon Moore by Thackray et al. was published in 2015.
References
- ↑ Our Stories - Gordon Moore about Moore's Law. local page: ASML. Dec 18, 2014.
- ↑ Gordon, Moore E. (Apr 19, 1965). Cramming more components onto integrated circuits (PDF). local page: Electronics Magazine.
- ↑ Thackray, Arnold; C. Brock, David; Jones, Rachel (2015). Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary. local page: Basic Books.