Moore's Law and Windows 8

Moore's Law and Windows 8

Introduction

Moore's Law

After six years of Integrated circuit, from 1965, Gordon Moore, investigated that the number of transistors on a chip had doubled every year and for the next decade, this trend is predicted to continue. When he predicted the law, he was amazed that his prediction had been exactly fulfilled. He also predicted later that the pace would reduce to once every two years. The slope suddenly received a change as doubling pace reduces to 18 months that is we can say that, fourfold pace would reduce to every three year. This trend has become Moore's law.

Moore made a prediction which proved to be uncannily accurate, as this law is used to guide long term planning and to set targets for research and development, in the semiconductor industry. Different capabilities including processing speed, sensors, memory capacity, size and number of pixels in digital cameras are strongly linked to Moore's law. All are going at an exponential rate as well. The impact of digital electronics has been enhanced dramatically by this exponential improvement.

Several related trends have been referred as well by Moore's law. The driving force is the shrinkage of the dimension of transistors: Smallest feature width; line width; a factor has shrunken the two every six years. The processors speed has been doubled at a pace of every two years, and the dynamic random access memory chips, memory capacity, has been doubled at a pace of every 18 months. Number of transistors have increased step wise on a processing chip.

Moore's law will go run out of steam in near future, Why? Or Why not?, illustrates the risks of technological prediction. The minimum feature size charts the course of Microsoft development that can be made at a given time. 200 nanometres was the minimum size achieved over line widths of about 10 microns in early 1970s for these features. The width of the line for today is 200nm and shrinking. It is approximated for today that at least 50nm width of line can be achieved with good performance. The limits on the technology have receded as the possibilities of CMOS.

Originally Moore himself spoke of an annual doubling, 1975, however, corrected his statement to a doubling every two years. Moore's former Intel colleague David House took 18 months as an estimate to the game, which is today the most common variant of Moore's Law and is the framework on which the semiconductor industry Moore's their development plans over several years. Real doubled the performance of new computer chips on average about every 20 months.

At Intel's Developer Forum in the fall of 2007 said Moore predicted the end of his law: It'll probably another 10 to 15 years will endure, until a fundamental limit is reached. However predicted Pat Gelsinger, chief of the digital enterprise division of Intel, already half a year later that Moore's Law would still retain validity until 2029. In October 2009, Martin Strobel said in his role as ...