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More from Moore
Chipmaking: Moore’s law may be running out of steam, but chip costs will continue to fall
THERE is a popular belief that Moore’s law is coming to an end. The doubling of transistors on a chip every two years, for the same cost, has continued apace since Gordon Moore, one of Intel’s founders, noted it back in 1965. At the time, a few hundred transistors could be crammed onto a sliver of silicon. Today’s powerful chips contain billions.
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