super hanc petram -- deep background
Monday, August 27, 2001
 
The first paragraph of this article on Intel is interesting to me:

"Intel Corp., the world's largest maker of microchips, said on Monday it had begun selling a Pentium 4 processor that runs at two gigahertz, or two billion cycles per second, doubling the speed of its computer processors in only 18 months."

Funny, isn't that what one of their board members predicted 36 years ago? In fact, Gordon Moore revised his theory in 1995 to say that capacity would double every 2 years. I just found it funny that Reuters led with this paragraph witout noting Moore's Law at all.


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