Moore's law

See also: Moore's Law

English

Alternative forms

• Moore's Law

Etymology

Named after Intel co-founder Gordon Moore.

Proper noun

Moore's law

1. (computing) An empirical observation that the density of transistors on a chip doubles every two years.
   • 2012 March 4, Alice Rawsthorn, “Farewell, Pocket Calculator?”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     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.

   • 2015, Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, Rachel Jones, Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary‎^[2], Hachette UK, →ISBN:

     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

• Eroom's law

Translations

empirical observation

• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 摩爾定律／摩尔定律 (mo¹ ji⁵ ding⁶ leot⁶)

  Mandarin: 摩爾定律／摩尔定律 (zh) (Mó'ěr dìnglǜ)

• Estonian: Moore'i seadus
• Finnish: Mooren laki (fi)
• French: loi de Moore (fr) f
• Japanese: ムーアの法則 (ムーアのほうそく, Mūa no hōsoku)
• Polish: Prawo Moore’a n

Further reading

• Moore's law on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Eroom's law