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Friday, November 14, 2008
Getting more from Moore's Law - Jonathan Fildes, BBC News
For more than 40 years the silicon industry has delivered ever faster, cheaper chips. The advances have underpinned everything from the rise of mobile phones to digital photography and portable music players. Chip-makers have been able to deliver many of these advances by shrinking the components on a chip. By making these building blocks, such as transistors, smaller they have become faster and firms have been able to pack more of them into the same area.
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