moore's law
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.14 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
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An empirical observation that the density of transistors on a chip doubles every two years.
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Alternative letter-case form of Moore's law.
Example Sentences
- "The pocket calculator’s fortunes have fallen ever since. It is a victim of “Moore’s Law,” the theory that the number of transistors that can be squeezed on to a microchip will roughly double every two years, thereby increasing computing power at the same rate."
- "How will industries and enterprises dependent upon and accustomed to Moore's Law continue to thrive? What might this disruption mean for society? And will the certainty of continued exponential change enshrined in Moore's Law ever become standard again?"
- "CPU speeds continue to increase with no end in sight. For instance, Sun's UltraSPARC processor roadmap, shown in Figure 16-2, show CPU speed increasing from 143 MHz in 1995 to 1.5 Ghz in 2002, roughly doubling every year as predicted by Moore's Law."