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Friday, April 12, 2002
http://www.redherring.com/insider/2002/0410/2206.html Obeying the law: Chip makers are finding ways to extend Gordon Moore's prediction. Dean Takahashi Gordon Moore couldn't have been more right. Since 1965, when he first predicted that the number of transistors on a chip would double every 18 months, the chip industry has kept pace with his forecast. Intel's original microprocessor, introduced in 1971, had 2,300 transistors; its upcoming McKinley chip, to be released this year, has more than 220 million. This improvement has been a key element of the success of the $139 billion worldwide industry. The resulting efficiencies in computational devices like PCs, cell phones, and communications networks that Moore's law made possible were the engine of economic growth throughout the past few decades. Now, however, Moore's law faces tough tests. Innovations in computing devices are transforming the Internet from a network of computers to a network of appliances with embedded computers. The transformation will require ever smaller, faster, and cheaper chips capable of computational and storage functions....
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