(PhysOrg.com) — Moores Law, hardly a law but undeniably a persistent trend, says that every year and a half, the number of transistors that fit on a chip roughly doubles. Its why electronics from smart phones to flat screens, from MP4 players to movie cameras, from tablets to supercomputers grow ever more varied, powerful, and compact, but also ever less expensive.
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