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Why is it that so many people tout 'Moore's Law' as if it is some kind of cosmological necessity?
People treat it like some kind of physical law, but unlike say 'the conservation of energy' it only worked from 1967 to 1975 and then he had to change it because it wasn't accurate any more. It has more or less held for bulk manufactured semiconductor devices since then, but normally we expect 'Law's' to be good for more than 8 years at a time.
The other problem I have are the articles claiming that it is somehow responsible for advances in the semiconductor industry e.g. 'Moore's law drives progress in the digital world' (University of Washington Comp Sci department). Would the engineers work a little less hard if they were only doing it for millions of dollars rather than the holy grail of fulfilling Moore's Law?
People treat it like some kind of physical law, but unlike say 'the conservation of energy' it only worked from 1967 to 1975 and then he had to change it because it wasn't accurate any more. It has more or less held for bulk manufactured semiconductor devices since then, but normally we expect 'Law's' to be good for more than 8 years at a time.
The other problem I have are the articles claiming that it is somehow responsible for advances in the semiconductor industry e.g. 'Moore's law drives progress in the digital world' (University of Washington Comp Sci department). Would the engineers work a little less hard if they were only doing it for millions of dollars rather than the holy grail of fulfilling Moore's Law?
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