Establishing Moore's Law

  • Authors:
  • Ethan Mollick

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Sloan School of Management

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Every field has brief formulas or relationships that are useful for back-of-the-envelopecalculations. Rarely do these maxims become popular knowledge; even more rarely do they become asubiquitous and influential as Moore's law, the 40-year-old prediction that the speed of computerswill double every year or two. Here, a look at the way in which the legendary law evolved into aself-fulfilling prophecy.