Accelerating technology (Moore)

▸ Building the transistors/chip curve over time…

▸ Doubling every ~2 years (Moore's law)

▸ Milestones: tube → transistor → IC → microprocessor → AI

▸ Warning: extrapolating an exponential is risky…

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Drag Time 1971→now · click 🔀 to compare log vs linear scale · click a milestone in the right column for details

Transistors/chip over time (log scale) — a straight line = Moorelog₁₀ transistors