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Happy birthday Moore's law!
By Gearhead, NetworkWorld.com, 04/13/05
Well, it was 40 years ago this month an article by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore was published in Electronics magazine and the phrase "The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year" became the stuff of legend.
See the fine article by Jon "Hannibal" Stokes on Ars Technica that explains the what and why of Moore's law and its remarkable impact on our thinking and expectations for high-tech growth.
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