Gordon Moore made a prediction in 1965 that has held up well for some time regar

Gordon Moore made a prediction in 1965 that has held up well for some time regarding the pace at which computer technology would advance. From Wikipedia: “In 1965, Gordon Moore, who at the time was working as the director of research and development at Fairchild Semiconductor, was asked to contribute to the thirty-fifth anniversary issue of Electronics magazine with a prediction on the future of the semiconductor components industry over the next ten years. His response was a brief article entitled “Cramming more components onto integrated circuits”. Within his editorial, he speculated that by 1975 it would be possible to contain as many as 65,000 components on a single quarter-square-inch semiconductor.” Moore specifically stated “The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year. Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase. Over the longer term, the rate of increase is a bit more uncertain, although there is no reason to believe it will not remain nearly constant for at least 10 years.”
In a nutshell, Moore predicted that for the ten year period between 1965 and 1975, manufacturers would be able to double the number of transistors (the part that allows a CPU to process) on a computer CPU chip for the same price every two years. A coworker of Moore dubbed the prediction “Moore’s Law” and restated as ” CPUs would be twice as fast or half as expensive every 18 months” (paraphrasing).
Do some research into CPU processing power (you can Google “Moore’s Law” to find what you need) over the past 45 years. Do you think Moore’s Law still holds? If it does, can it hold for much longer? Why or why not?
Write a short paper (2 pages) with your conclusions.

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