Moore's Law
- Title
- Moore's Law
- Description
Moore's Law
Moore's Law is an observation and prediction about the pace of technological progress in semiconductor and computing technology.
Key Facts
- Formulated by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, in 1965.
- Original observation: the number of transistors on a microchip doubles approximately every two years, while costs are halved.
- This has driven exponential growth in computing power and a dramatic reduction in cost per computation.
- Modern chips (e.g., Apple M-series, NVIDIA GPUs) contain tens of billions of transistors.
- Many experts note that Moore's Law is slowing as we approach physical atomic limits.
- Alternative progress now comes from AI accelerators, 3D chip stacking, and quantum computing.
- Category
- IT & Computer
- Year of Discovery/Development
- 1965
- Key Person/Organization
- Gordon Moore