Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Moore's Law
Message-ID: <1990Feb7.001316.28775@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1461@east.East.Sun.COM> <51751@bu.edu.bu.edu>
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 90 00:13:16 GMT

In article <51751@bu.edu.bu.edu> art@cs.bu.edu (Al Thompson) writes:
>'I had no idea that anybody would expect us to keep doubling [capacity] for
>ten more years.  If you extrapolated out to 1975, that would mean we'd
>have 65,000 transistors on a single integrated circuit.  It just seemed
>ridiculous.'...

There is actually a still more impressive observation, somewhat related:
the number of transistors on Earth has been doubling every 10 months for
the last 30 years.  The slowdown in chip-density growth has *not* slowed
this growth down, last I heard.
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