More Moore

from Today's Papers:

Intel's new chip design means that Moore's Law, which posits that chips double their computing power every two years, will continue to be true, refuting skeptics who believed that engineers had recently hit a wall in making them any more powerful.

Silicon Valley's hometown paper, the San Jose Mercury News, quotes the eponymous Moore himself saying that the development "marks the biggest change in transistor technology" since the 1960s.

But what does this mean for the electronics consumer? The best the Times can do is that it will make it easier "for cellphones to play video at length -- a demanding digital task -- with less battery drain."

Moore's Law is the empirical observation made in 1965 that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit for minimum component cost doubles every 24 months. It is attributed to Gordon E. Moore, a co-founder of Intel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

"Cramming more components onto integrated circuits", Electronics Magazine 19 April 1965