2015 - Moore is More. 50 years of computing.
I tend to replace my main computers every two years too, until now I did not know that there was likely a plan behind making them all grow outdated and fall apart in two year intervals.
2015- Moore is More. 50 years of computing.
Oh how the times have changed
Its 2015 and we have reached the 50th anniversary of Moore’s Law. Moore’s law is based on Moore’s paper published in 1965 about the processing power of computers. Moore’s Law describes that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit will approximately double every two years. Moore was a co-founder of Intel and his law is used as a business model for the Semiconductor industry.
So far Moore’s law has held true and the power of computing has doubled about every two years. I tend to buy computers in two year cycles to take advantage of this processing power and keep cost in check by buying just behind the newest technology.
So for a little timeline to transistors and size. Back in the early 1970’s we had what was referred to as the 10 µm process transistor (or 0.000393701 inch) which was the level of semiconductor processing technology reached around 1971/72 timeframe. Today we are looking at a 14 nm process (14 nm = 5.51181102362E-7 inch).
Here is the size of the semiconductors by decade-
The 1970’s- 10 µm - 1971, to 6 µm- 1974, to 3 µm – 1977
The 1980’s- 1.5 µm – 1982, to 1 µm – 1985, to 800 nm – 1989
The 1990’s- 600 nm – 1994, to 350 nm – 1995, to 250 nm – 1997, to 180 nm – 1999
The 2000’s- 130 nm – 2001, to 90 nm – 2004, to 65 nm – 2006, to 45 nm – 2008
The 2010’s- 32 nm – 2010, to 22 nm – 2012, to 14 nm – 2014
Intel in their 22-nm process started stacking transistors on top of each other in what they refer to as 3-D design. This was enhanced even further with their 14-nm technology.
Here is an interesting video from Intel on their 22-nm process.
And to the future here is what they predict- 2016- 10 nm, 7 nm in 2018 and 5 nm by 2020
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