Moore's Law
Moore's Law
- Statement: the number of transistors on an integrated circuit roughly doubles about every two years, with cost per transistor falling accordingly.
- Origin: Gordon Moore (1965, revised 1975), co-founder of Intel; an observation and industry projection, not a law of nature.
- Kind: empirical trend.
- Why it belongs here: often cited as if it were an axiom, but it is an observed regularity that has been slowing as physical limits approach—an illustration of how a named "law" can expire.
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