Moore's Law Reaches 50 as Chip Industry Faces New Challenges
Will it ever be proven wrong?
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Even for its author, Moore's Law — the predictor of progress in the electronics industry — has been around a lot longer than expected.
"I’m amazed. The original prediction was to look 10 years out, which I thought was a stretch," Intel Corp. co-founder Gordon Moore said at an event Monday to mark 50 years since he postulated that the number of transistors on a computer chip doubles every two years.