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Doubled Inexpensively. This Remarkable Trend Often Is Called

Moore's Law states that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years. This was observed by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, and has led to rapid declines in computer hardware costs over decades as computer memory, storage, and processing speeds have doubled at regular intervals. Similar improvements have occurred in communications technologies due to growing demand and competition, with costs plummeting as bandwidth capacities increased enormously. No other fields have seen such quick technological improvements and rapidly falling costs, fueling the ongoing Information Revolution.

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Doubled Inexpensively. This Remarkable Trend Often Is Called

Moore's Law states that the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years. This was observed by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, and has led to rapid declines in computer hardware costs over decades as computer memory, storage, and processing speeds have doubled at regular intervals. Similar improvements have occurred in communications technologies due to growing demand and competition, with costs plummeting as bandwidth capacities increased enormously. No other fields have seen such quick technological improvements and rapidly falling costs, fueling the ongoing Information Revolution.

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Moore’s Law,

Every year, you probably expect to pay at least a little more for most products and services.
The opposite has been the case in the computer and communications fields, especially with
regard to the costs of hardware supporting these technologies. For many decades, hardware
costs have fallen rapidly. Every year or two, the capacities of computers have approximately
doubled inexpensively. This remarkable trend often is called Moore’s Law, named for the
person who identified it, Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel—the leading manufacturer of
the processors in today’s computers and embedded systems. Moore’s Law and related observations
apply especially to the amount of memory that computers have for programs, the
amount of secondary storage (such as disk storage) they have to hold programs and data over
longer periods of time, and their processor speeds—the speeds at which computers execute
their programs (i.e., do their work). Similar growth hpas occurred in the communications
field, in which costs have plummeted as enormous demand for communications bandwidth
(i.e., information-carrying capacity) has attracted intense competition. We know of no other
fields in which technology improves so quickly and costs fall so rapidly. Such phenomenal
improvement is truly fostering the Information Revolution

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