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Science Channel
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It's an observation made by Gordon Moore, a founder of Intel. In 1965, Moore observed that improvements in manufacturing processes had made it economical to fit twice as many transistors on a given area of silicon as what was common a year earlier. He projected his observation to the future, suggesting that as long as it made economic sense to shrink transistors and find new ways to arrange them, we would keep doubling them on silicon chips each year. We came to call this observation Moore's Law and have tweaked it a few times over the years. Generally, it means that we'll double the number of transistors on a silicon chip every 18 to 24 months. Some engineers think we may be approaching the end of Moore's Law, but so far the observation continues to defy those who predicted its end. Such fast growth makes predicting where technology will go very challenging.
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