Intel was searching for the original article in which Gordon Moore predicted that every year the numbers of transistors on a chip would double. They wanted to display it in their museum. It was published in a magazine but they couldn't retrieve it.
Finally, they put an advertisement on eBay and a crazy brit replied. He collected magazine for decades and stored them under his house's floor. He still had the original magazine (Electronics, Vol 38) and Intel bought it for 10K $
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mjrpes wrote:So by putting Moore's Law in a museum does that mean it has come to an end?
Not yet, but it will soon.
I don't think it will anytime soon since he only stated in 1965 that the number of components per integrated circuit would increase by a factor of two which means it can continue if die sizes grow by stacking etc.
The current Moores law is not the same as what he originally made it and now the term chip density is used, mostly because some people want it to be broken.
See sat's post. We're approaching limits of the materials used in semiconductor manufacturing. The physics involved dictate that at a certain feature size, gates will cease to function.
Yes, if there's no "switch over" to something else as Sat said. I wouldn't bet money on it, but I think Moore's law (in one form or another) has some life left in it.
Massive Quasars wrote:Yes, if there's no "switch over" to something else as Sat said. I wouldn't bet money on it, but I think Moore's law (in one form or another) has some life left in it.
Well, I was referring only to existing materials/process technologies.
