University at Buffalo
The State University of New York
CCR
Center for
Computational Research
Gordon E. Moore
nCo-Founder of Intel
nPredicted (1965/75) that transistor density would double every 12/18 months
nProcessing speed doubling every 18 mos.
nDisk storage doubling every 12 mos.
nAggregate bandwidth doubling every 9 mos.
Gordon E. Moore
nA computation that took 1 year to run
on a PC in 1985 would only take 5 mins to run on a PC today!
nA computation that runs in 2 hours on a PC today would have taken 24 years to run on a PC in 1985!