Moores Law

Author : Arnold Thackray
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465055621
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moore's Law written by Arnold Thackray and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our world today -- from the phone in your pocket to the car that you drive, the allure of social media to the strategy of the Pentagon -- has been shaped irrevocably by the technology of silicon transistors. Year after year, for half a century, these tiny switches have enabled ever-more startling capabilities. Their incredible proliferation has altered the course of human history as dramatically as any political or social revolution. At the heart of it all has been one quiet Californian: Gordon Moore. At Fairchild Semiconductor, his seminal Silicon Valley startup, Moore -- a young chemist turned electronics entrepreneur -- had the defining insight: silicon transistors, and microchips made of them, could make electronics profoundly cheap and immensely powerful. Microchips could double in power, then redouble again in clockwork fashion. History has borne out this insight, which we now call "Moore's Law", and Moore himself, having recognized it, worked endlessly to realize his vision. With Moore's technological leadership at Fairchild and then at his second start-up, the Intel Corporation, the law has held for fifty years. The result is profound: from the days of enormous, clunky computers of limited capability to our new era, in which computers are placed everywhere from inside of our bodies to the surface of Mars. Moore led nothing short of a revolution. In Moore's Law, Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock, and Rachel Jones give the authoritative account of Gordon Moore's life and his role in the development both of Silicon Valley and the transformative technologies developed there. Told by a team of writers with unparalleled access to Moore, his family, and his contemporaries, this is the human story of man and a career that have had almost superhuman effects. The history of twentieth-century technology is littered with overblown "revolutions." Moore's Law is essential reading for anyone seeking to learn what a real revolution looks like.

Author : Karsten König
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110383500
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Optically Induced Nanostructures written by Karsten König and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nanostructuring of materials is a task at the heart of many modern disciplines in mechanical engineering, as well as optics, electronics, and the life sciences. This book includes an introduction to the relevant nonlinear optical processes associated with very short laser pulses for the generation of structures far below the classical optical diffraction limit of about 200 nanometers as well as coverage of state-of-the-art technical and biomedical applications. These applications include silicon and glass wafer processing, production of nanowires, laser transfection and cell reprogramming, optical cleaning, surface treatments of implants, nanowires, 3D nanoprinting, STED lithography, friction modification, and integrated optics. The book highlights also the use of modern femtosecond laser microscopes and nanoscopes as novel nanoprocessing tools.

Author : Cyrus C. M. Mody
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262035499
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Long Arm of Moore's Law written by Cyrus C. M. Mody and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-12-09 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How, beginning in the mid 1960s, the US semiconductor industry helped shape changes in American science, including a new orientation to the short-term and the commercial. Since the mid 1960s, American science has undergone significant changes in the way it is organized, funded, and practiced. These changes include the decline of basic research by corporations; a new orientation toward the short-term and the commercial, with pressure on universities and government labs to participate in the market; and the promotion of interdisciplinarity. In this book, Cyrus Mody argues that the changes in American science that began in the 1960s co-evolved with and were shaped by the needs of the “civilianized” US semiconductor industry. In 1965, Gordon Moore declared that the most profitable number of circuit components that can be crammed on a single silicon chip doubles every year. Mody views “Moore's Law” less as prediction than as self-fulfilling prophecy, pointing to the enormous investments of capital, people, and institutions the semiconductor industry required—the “long arm” of Moore's Law that helped shape all of science. Mody offers a series of case studies in microelectronics that illustrate the reach of Moore's Law. He describes the pressures on Stanford University's electrical engineers during the Vietnam era, IBM's exploration of alternatives to semiconductor technology, the emergence of consortia to integrate research across disciplines and universities, and the interwoven development of the the molecular electronics community and associated academic institutions as the vision of a molecular computer informed the restructuring of research programs.

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Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Access to Supercomputers written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David C. Brock
Publisher : Chemical Heritage Foundation
ISBN 13 : 9780941901413
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Moore's Law written by David C. Brock and published by Chemical Heritage Foundation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Apek Mulay
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1627058117
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustaining Moore’s Law written by Apek Mulay and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, in "Cramming more components onto Integrated Circuits" in Electronics Magazine (April 19, 1965), made the observation that, in the history of computing hardware, the number of transistors on integrated circuits doubles approximately every two years. Since its inception in 1965 until recent times, this law has been used in the semiconductor industry to guide investments for long-term planning as well as to set targets for research and development. These investments have helped in a productive utilization of wealth, which created more employment opportunities for semiconductor industry professionals. In this way, the development of Moore's Law has helped sustain the progress of today's knowledge-based economy. While Moore's Law has, on one hand, helped drive investments toward technological and economic growth, thereby benefiting the consumers with more powerful electronic gadgets, Moore's Law has indirectly also helped to fuel other innovations in the global economy. However, the Law of diminishing returns is now questioning the sustainability of further evolution of Moore's Law and its ability to sustain the progress of today's knowledge based economy. The lack of liquidity in the global economy is truly bringing the entire industry to a standstill and the dark clouds of an economic depression are hovering over the global economy. What factors have been ignored by the global semiconductor industry leading to a demise of Moore's Law? Do the existing business models prevalent in the semiconductor industry pose any problems? Have supply chains made that progress unsustainable? In today's globalized world, have businesses been able to sustain national interests while driving the progress of Moore's Law? Could the semiconductor industry help the entire global economy move toward a radiance of the new crimson dawn, beyond the veil of the darkest night by sustaining the progress of Moore's Law? The entire semiconductor industry is now clamoring for a fresh approach to overcome existing barriers to the progress of Moore's Law, and this book delivers just that. Moore's Law can easily continue for the foreseeable future if the chip manufacturing industry becomes sustainable by having a balanced economy. The sustainable progress of Moore's Law advocates the "heresy" of transforming the current economic orthodoxy of monopoly capitalism into free-market capitalism. The next big thing that everybody is looking forward to after mobile revolution is the "Internet of Things" (IoT) revolution. While some analysts forecast that the IoT market would achieve 5.4 billion connections worldwide by 2020, the poor consumer purchasing power in global economy makes this forecast truly questionable. Sustaining Moore's Law presents a blueprint for sustaining the progress of Moore's Law to bring about IoT Revolution in the global economy.

Author : William Aspray
Publisher : SciTech Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1891121359
Total Pages : 2 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chasing Moore's Law written by William Aspray and published by SciTech Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a comprehensive and accessible introduction to today's U.S. information technology policy issues, this title identifies the main players, and describes the history of legislation and court cases, homeland security, online commerce, anti-trust, and more.

Author : Linda Null
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780763737696
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture written by Linda Null and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2006 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Computer Architecture/Software Engineering

Author : Shona L. Brown
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
ISBN 13 : 9780875847542
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Competing on the Edge written by Shona L. Brown and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In their startling new book, authors Brown and Eisenhardt contend that to prosper in today's fiercely competitive business environments, a new paradigm--competing on the edge--must be implemented as a new survival strategy. This book focuses on specific management dilemmas and illustrates solutions that work when the name of the game is change.

Author : Howard Huff
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3540745599
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Into The Nano Era written by Howard Huff and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as we tentatively enter the nanotechnology era, we are now encountering the 50th anniversary of the invention of the IC. Will silicon continue to be the pre-eminent material and will Moore’s Law continue unabated, albeit in a broader economic venue, in the nanotechnology era? This monograph addresses these issues by a re-examination of the scientific and technological foundations of the micro-electronics era. It also features two visionary articles of Nobel laureates.