Moore’s law, less of a law than an observation, a bit like Murphy’s law, states that ‘the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years’.
Of course this was accepted as being valid in the short term but invalid over a longer length of time as we hit the limits of our technology and the media we work with. I and People of similar thoughts to myself have felt that although we would reach the limits on one substrate we would find another and the law would apply again until, of course, we reached the limits of that substrate and so on. We look at most things the same way, on the positive side.
Now, h/t Ivan, it appears that before we have even had a hiccup with silicon a new substrate has been found, graphene. A first generation graphene processor is already working at 250x a state of the art silicon chip and that is before we start the fine tuning and improve the manufacturing process.
A very impressive start. Wonder when we can expect to see them in our systems?
If women are so good at multi-tasking, how come they can’t have a headache and sex at the same time.
Electronic Evolution
Moore’s law, less of a law than an observation, a bit like Murphy’s law, states that ‘the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years’.
Of course this was accepted as being valid in the short term but invalid over a longer length of time as we hit the limits of our technology and the media we work with. I and People of similar thoughts to myself have felt that although we would reach the limits on one substrate we would find another and the law would apply again until, of course, we reached the limits of that substrate and so on. We look at most things the same way, on the positive side.
Now, h/t Ivan, it appears that before we have even had a hiccup with silicon a new substrate has been found, graphene. A first generation graphene processor is already working at 250x a state of the art silicon chip and that is before we start the fine tuning and improve the manufacturing process.
A very impressive start. Wonder when we can expect to see them in our systems?