Moore’s Law has been widely quoted & misquoted. Possibly the most popular misquote is: “Moore’s Law states that computing power doubles every 18 months.”
In fact, what Gordon Moore was talking about in 1965, was transistor density: that the number of transistors in a given area would double every two years. Performance impact is only indirect.
Despite frequent predictions of its imminent demise, Moore’s Law is alive & well at 50.
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