Moore's Law
From Conservapedia
Moore's Law is the term commonly used to describe the 1965 prediction by Intel Corporation co-founder Gordon Moore that holds that the number of transistors that can economically be incorporated in an semiconductor integrated circuit (see microprocessor and arithmetic logic unit) roughly doubles every two years.[1]
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Background
When Moore in 1965 observed that the number of components on integrated circuits seemed to double regularly, this fact was known to many people working in the area. Indeed, it took over a decade, during which Moore had become the co-founder of Intel and its President and CEO, before this observation was called Moore's Law.[2]
Examples Using Intel Processors
The following table shows the progression of the number of transistors embedded in a single Intel Chip over time:[3]
| Year | Intel Chip Model | # of Transistors |
|---|---|---|
| 1971 | 4004 | 2,300 |
| 1974 | 8080 | 4,500 |
| 1978 | 8086 | 29,000 |
| 1982 | i286 | 134,000 |
| 1985 | i386 | 275,000 |
| 1989 | i486 | 1,200,000 |
| 1993 | Pentium | 3,100,000 |
| 1995 | Pentium Pro | 5,500,000 |
| 1997 | Pentium II | 7,500,000 |
| 1999 | Pentium III | 9,500,000 |
| 2001 | Pentium 4 / Xeon | 42,000,000 |
| 2002 | Pentium M | 55,000,000 |
| 2002 | Itanium 2 | 220,500,000 |
| 2005 | Pentium D | 291,000,000 |
| 2007 | Xeon | 582,000,000 |
| 2007 | Xeon (Penryn) | 820,000,000 |
See also
- Microprocessor: Computer, CPU, Arithmetic logic unit, Integrated circuit, Transistor, Semiconductor
- Silicon Valley: Intel, AMD (AMD64), IBM, Motorola, Texas Instruments, Atari
- IBM, HP, Dell and Microsoft Windows
- Apple Computer Mac OS for Apple Macintosh
- Mobile devices: Smartphones and tablets
- Apple iOS for iPhone-iPod-iPad
- Android
Further reading
External links
- https://charlescarrollsociety.com/2013/06/10/prism-yes-they-can
- https://charlescarrollsociety.com/2013/05/06/memo-to-the-police-state-progressives-please-let-his-people-go
- https://charlescarrollsociety.com/2012/09/15/no-knock-raid-a-great-video
- https://charlescarrollsociety.com/2014/02/12/amrd-t-a-i-l-s-plastic-gloves-for-your-computer-american-redoubt - Tails operating system
- https://charlescarrollsociety.com/2014/01/29/amrd-introducing-the-tor-browser-bundle/ - Tor browser
- https://prism-break.org/en - "Opt out of global data surveillance programs like PRISM, XKeyscore and Tempora."[4]
- https://www.eff.org - "Leading the fight against the NSA's illegal mass surveillance program"[5]
- https://www.eff.org/secure-messaging-scorecard
- http://justdelete.me
- http://lifehacker.com/just-delete-me-is-a-massive-list-of-links-to-close-all-1245040101
- Online Guide to Privacy Resources[6]
- http://www.nocards.org - Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email[7]
References
- ↑ [1] Intel page on Moore's Law
- ↑ http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue7_11/tuomi/
- ↑ http://www.intel.com/technology/timeline.pdf
- ↑ "Help make mass surveillance of entire populations uneconomical. We all have a right to privacy, which you can exercise today by encrypting your communications and ending your reliance on proprietary services."
- ↑ "Organization formed in 1990 to maintain and enhance intellectual freedom, privacy, and other values of civil liberties and democracy in networked communications. Publishes newsletters, Internet Guidebooks and other documents, provides mailing lists and other online forums, and hosts a large electronic document archive. Contact: info@eff.org. 454 Shotwell Street, San Francisco, CA 94110-1914. Tel: (415) 436-9333. Fax: (415) 436-9993. Executive Director: Sheryl Steele."
- ↑ "EPIC was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging privacy issues relating to the National Information Infrastructure, such as the Clipper Chip, the Digital Telephony proposal, medical records privacy and the sale of consumer data. EPIC conducts litigation, sponsors conferences, produces reports, publishes the EPIC Alert and leads campaigns on privacy issues. For more information email: epic-info@epic.org, or contact EPIC, 1718 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 200, Washington, DC 20009. Tel: (202) 483-1140. Executive Director: Marc Rotenberg."
- ↑ "CAUCE is an all volunteer, entirely web-based organization, created by Netizens to advocate for a legislative solution to the problem of UCE (spam). CAUCE began as a discussion group called SPAM-LAW, formed of members who felt that legislation was necessary to stop spam from choking the life out of the Internet. In 1997 CAUCE proposed an amendment to the Federal statute which outlaws junk "faxes" (47 USC 227) to also prohibit junk e-mail, and since then has remained a pre-eminent voice in the anti-spam community. Email: comments@cauce.org. President: Edward Cherlin."
