Is Moore’s law a law?
What will be an ideal response?
No, not in the sense of a physical law. It is based on an observation that has been turned into a prophecy or conjecture. Because it has appeared to hold (or at least approximately so) for four decades, manufacturers have used Moore’s Law to begin designing the next generation of microprocessors before the current generation is in production; that is, the manufacturer can start to design a system with twice the number of transistors as the current generation without the technology needed to fabricate the device being currently available. I call it ‘Mr. Micawber’s Law’, because it relies on something turning up. In recent years, many have stated that Moore’s Law has indeed come to an end because we have reached (or are very close to) the physical limits to computer performance.
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