Happy 40th birthday, Moore’s Law
Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 9:12 am
Gordon Moore in 1965, aspiring engineer and budding entrepreneur, published an article in an issue of Electronics Magazine, an article that became known as Moore's Law.
This is a must read for any computer Enthusiast! I loved the part about transistors: "In 1954, a transistor cost $5.52. By 2004, its price tag was a billionth of a dollar." That is just amazing to me! So, Why are these Extreme Edition and FX processors a thousand dollars?Plotting curves on graph paper, Moore saw that the number of components on an integrated circuit had doubled every year and figured that rate would continue for a decade as transistors were made smaller. He saw that the per-component costs would fall as manufacturing improved.
“The accuracy of the plot was not my principal objective,” Moore said in a recent interview at Intel’s headquarters, where the former chairman and CEO still keeps a cubicle. “I just wanted to get the idea across that integrated circuits were the route to much lower-cost electronics.”
Article Source: MSNBC