Moore's Observation refers ONLY to the number of on-die transistors,
does it not? So while this happens to keep the same time table (and is
obviously very related) it's not "Moore's Law" in action per se. I
propose we call it "The Will of Dave" for, I assure you, entirely
non-grandiose purposes.
-dhbarr.
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 17:29:58 -0500, John Allain <allain_at_panix.com> wrote:
> > A PC part is worth roughly 1/100th of it's
> > value over about a 10-12 year time frame,
>
> That's just Moore's Law, here's the math...
> 2.000 x in 1.5 years is
> 1.587 x in 1.0 year is
> 101.6 x in 10.0 years
> *
>
> I think the other rule (that people already know)
> is that when something goes below a value
> of about 50?/lb, sellers don't want to carry the thing
> around any more, the price then crashes, the thing
> is scrapped and the rebound begins.
>
> John A.
> * kind of as neat and easy as 10bits = 1K
>
>
Received on Fri Feb 25 2005 - 18:24:21 GMT