Moore's law

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.
   • 2015, Arnold Thackray; David C. Brock; Rachel Jones, Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary‎, 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 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