Moore's law

Moore's law
noun Usage: often capitalized L Etymology: Gordon E. Moore b1929 American computer industry executive Date: 1980 an axiom of microprocessor development usually holding that processing power doubles about every 18 months especially relative to cost or size

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  • Moore's law — The law formulated by Gordon Moore (born 1929), which states that the number of transistors that it is possible to fit onto a silicon chip doubles approx every 18 months • • • Main Entry: ↑law …   Useful english dictionary

  • Moore's Law — [ˌmʊəz ˈlɔː ǁ ˌmʊrz ˈlɒː] noun COMPUTING the statement that the cost of a particular amount of computer power falls by half every 18 or 24 months …   Financial and business terms

  • Moore's Law —  Moore s Law  Закон Мура   Эмпирическое наблюдение, сделанное в 1965 году (через шесть лет после изобретения интегральной схемы) одним из основателей корпорации «Intel» Гордоном Муром: число транзисторов на кристалле будет удваиваться каждые 24… …   Толковый англо-русский словарь по нанотехнологии. - М.

  • Moore's law — Plot of CPU transistor counts against dates of introduction. Note the logarithmic vertical scale; the line corresponds to exponential growth with transistor count doubling every two years …   Wikipedia

  • Moore's Law — Grafik zur Belegung des mooreschen Gesetzes mit Intel Prozessoren (Stand 2004; Ordinate ist logarithmisch skaliert). Kritiker bemängeln, dass die Kostenoptimalität dieser Prozessoren nicht gezeigt wurde. Das mooresche Gesetz (engl. Moore s Law;… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Moore's Law — An observation made by Intel co founder Gordon Moore in 1965. He noticed that the number of transistors per square inch on integrated circuits had doubled every year since their invention. Moore’s law predicts that this trend will continue… …   Investment dictionary

  • Moore’s law — A semiconductor chip’s computing power will double every 18 months (for Gordon Moore) …   Eponyms, nicknames, and geographical games

  • Moore's Law —    States that the number of transistors on a chip of a given size doubles approximately every 18 months. Named for Intel s Gordon Moore, who first made this statement in 1965 …   Dictionary of networking

  • Moore's law — (Computers) law that determines that the data storage ability of a microchip is doubled once a year (or once every year and a half) …   English contemporary dictionary

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