Moore's Law is the observation by [Gordon E. Moore]
? (one of the co-founders of
Intel, not to be confused with the philosopher
G. E. Moore) that, at our rate of technological development and advances in the
semiconductor industry, the number of
transistors on
integrated circuits (a rough measure of computer processing power) doubles every 18 months - 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64 ... - we should expect that in 10 years computers will be about 100 times more powerful than they are today.
Moore first outlined the "law" in 1965 and the rate has remained highly-consistent until now. Extrapolation based on Moore's Law has led futurists? such as Vernor Vinge and Bruce Sterling to speculate about a technological Singularity.
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