Gordon E. Moore
n Co-Founder of Intel
n Predicted (1965/75) that transistor density
would double every 12/18 months
n Processing speed doubling every 18 mos.
n Disk storage doubling every 12 mos.
n Aggregate bandwidth doubling every 9 mos.
Gordon E. Moore
n A computation that took 1
year to run on a PC in 1985
would only take 5  mins to
run on a PC today!
n A computation that runs in
2 hours on a PC today
would have taken 24 years
to run on a PC in 1985!