From: E. Shaun Russell (e_shaun@extropy.org)
Date: Wed Dec 13 2000 - 07:03:45 MST
Phil Blake wrote:
>Is Moores Law just based on the speed of the clock or does it tie in
>with performance?
Moore's Law is actually fairly simple: that every two years we will be able
to double the quantity of transistors on an integrated circuit. This
pretty much speaks for a computer's speed, though generally performance is
relatively parallel.
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