Discussion Questions in Computing
Discussion Question
1. Briefly describe Moore law. What are the implications of this law? Are there any practical limitations to Moore law?
Moore’s Law is a hypothesis stating that transistor densities on a single chip double every two years. Moore 's law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware. The number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years.
Moore 's law is a rule of thumb in the computer industry about the growth of computing power over time. Attributed to Gordon E. Moore the co-founder of Intel, it states that the growth of computing power follows an empirical exponential law. Moore originally proposed a 12 month doubling and, later, a 24 month period. Due to the mathematical nature of doubling, this implies that within 30-50 years computers will become more intelligent than human beings.
The implications of many digital electronic devices are strongly linked to Moore 's law: processing speed, memory capacity, sensors and even the number and size of pixels in digital cameras.All of these are improving at (roughly) exponential rates as well. This has dramatically increased the usefulness of digital electronics in nearly every segment of the world economy. Moore 's law precisely describes a driving force of technological and social change in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Transistors per integrated circuit. The most popular formulation is of the doubling of the number of transistors on integrated circuits every two years. At the end of the 1970s, Moore 's law became known as the limit for the number of transistors on the most complex chips. Recent trends show that this rate has been maintained into 2007. Density at minimum cost per transistor. This is the formulation given in Moore 's 1965 paper. It is not just about the density of transistors that can be achieved, but about the density of transistors at which the cost per transistor is
1. Briefly describe Moore law. What are the implications of this law? Are there any practical limitations to Moore law?
Moore’s Law is a hypothesis stating that transistor densities on a single chip double every two years. Moore 's law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware. The number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has doubled approximately every two years.
Moore 's law is a rule of thumb in the computer industry about the growth of computing power over time. Attributed to Gordon E. Moore the co-founder of Intel, it states that the growth of computing power follows an empirical exponential law. Moore originally proposed a 12 month doubling and, later, a 24 month period. Due to the mathematical nature of doubling, this implies that within 30-50 years computers will become more intelligent than human beings.
The implications of many digital electronic devices are strongly linked to Moore 's law: processing speed, memory capacity, sensors and even the number and size of pixels in digital cameras.All of these are improving at (roughly) exponential rates as well. This has dramatically increased the usefulness of digital electronics in nearly every segment of the world economy. Moore 's law precisely describes a driving force of technological and social change in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
Transistors per integrated circuit. The most popular formulation is of the doubling of the number of transistors on integrated circuits every two years. At the end of the 1970s, Moore 's law became known as the limit for the number of transistors on the most complex chips. Recent trends show that this rate has been maintained into 2007. Density at minimum cost per transistor. This is the formulation given in Moore 's 1965 paper. It is not just about the density of transistors that can be achieved, but about the density of transistors at which the cost per transistor is
References: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/gray/moore_law.html http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/the-meaning-and-implications-of-moores-law2004045/ http://gigaom.com/2009/04/12/the-enterprise-impact-of-cloud-computing/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing http://www.intertic.org/Policy%20Papers/CC.pdf