Equation 4 · Part 2 · From Origins to Frontier: A History of Advanced Semiconductor Fabrication
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What this part means
Approximately equal to; the equality is not exact.
Its job in the formula
Approximately equal to; the equality is not exact.
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The passage around this formula
with T 1 year in the 1965 paper’s implied rate and T 2 years in Moore’s own 1975 revision [ 1 , 2 ] . A model that halves its own rate parameter after a decade of data is not a law of nature; it is a working forecast that its author corrected in public once, using new evidence, at a named conference. That the popular shorthand later collapsed both versions into a single unchanging “law” says more about the appeal of a clean number than about what either paper actually claimed.
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Sources cited in the article section
- [1] Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits ↗
- [2] 1965: "Moore's Law" Predicts the Future of Integrated Circuits ↗
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