Moore's law

Moore's Law English Alternative forms en Moore's Law Etymology en Gordon Moore = Intel co-founder. Proper noun en computing An empirical observation that the density of transistors on a chip doubles every two years. en 2012-03-04 w:Alice Rawsthorn Farewell, Pocket Calculator? w:The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/arts/design/farewell-pocket-calculator.html The pocket calculator’s fortunes have fallen ever since. It is a victim of “Moore’s Law,” the theory that the number of transistors that can be squeezed on to a microchip will roughly double every two years, thereby increasing computing power at the same rate. https://web.archive.org/web/20251002022724/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/arts/design/farewell-pocket-calculator.html 2 October 2025 en 2015 Arnold Thackray; David C. Brock; Rachel Jones Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary Hachette UK 9780465055623 https://books.google.de/books?id=TuQ4DgAAQBAJ&lpg=PT400&dq=%22Moore's%20law%22&pg=PT400#v=onepage&q=%22Moore's%20law%22&f=false How will industries and enterprises dependent upon and accustomed to Moore's Law continue to thrive? What might this disruption mean for society? And will the certainty of continued exponential change enshrined in Moore's Law ever become standard again? Derived terms en Eroom's law Translations empirical observation Chinese: Cantonese: yue 摩爾定律 mo1 ji5 ding6 leot6 Mandarin: cmn 摩爾定律 Mó'ěr dìnglǜ Estonian: et Moore'i seadus Finnish: fi Mooren laki French: fr loi de Moore f Japanese: ja ムーアの法則 ムーアのほうそく, Mūa no hōsoku Polish: pl Prawo Moore’a n Further reading Anagrams en aelmoorsw Eroom's law en Futurology