Moore’s Law finally repealed
Posted by Michael on Thursday August 29, 2002 @01:20AM
from the stop-you're-under-arrest dept.
Squid writes: For years the computer industry has followed Moore’s law, which states that the number of transistors per inch on an integrated circuit - and thus, the speed of a computer - doubles every 18 months. Now, the US Senate has overwhelmingly voted to repeal Moore’s Law.
This is great news for Intel and other chip makers, whose progress has always been limited by Moore’s law. It’s also great news for Microsoft and other makers of slow, bloated software. “With Moore’s Law out of the way, we’ll be able to quadruple the size of the Windows XP codebase within the next year,” says a Microsoft source.
Moore’s Law has been on the books since proposed by Intel chairman Gordon E. Moore in 1965. Congress is hoping that this move will revitalize the computer industry. Rumor has it the laws of physics are next on the agenda.