Moore's law states that the?

Question

A) size of microchips doubles every 18months
B) Processing power of microchips doubles every 12 months
C) Speed of microchips doubles every 12 months
D) Processing power of microchips doubles every 18months

Answer 1

Read the link below. Here is an portion of the text.

Moore's original statement can be found in his publication "Cramming more components onto integrated circuits", Electronics Magazine 19 April 1965:

"The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year ... Certainly over the short term this rate can be expected to continue, if not to increase. Over the longer term, the rate of increase is a bit more uncertain, although there is no reason to believe it will not remain nearly constant for at least 10 years. That means by 1975, the number of components per integrated circuit for minimum cost will be 65,000. I believe that such a large circuit can be built on a single wafer."


Moore's Law describes an important trend in the history of computer hardware: that the number of transistors that can be inexpensively placed on an integrated circuit is increasing exponentially, doubling approximately every two years. The observation was first made by Intel co-founder Gordon E. Moore in a 1965 paper. The trend has continued for more than half a century and is not expected to stop for a decade at least and perhaps much longer.

Almost every measure of the capabilities of digital electronic devices is linked to Moore's Law: processing speed, memory capacity, even the resolution of LCD screens and digital cameras. All of these are improving at (roughly) exponential rates as well. This has changed dramatically the usefulness of digital electronics in nearly every segment of the world economy. Moore's Law is a driving force of technological and social change in the late 20th and early 21st centuries.

Answer 2

None of the above.
Moore's law is that the number of transistors per square inch on an integrated circuit doubles every two years.

Answer 3

that means that if you knew everythought anyone had, you could predict the next event

Answer 4

It's in your book.