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Subject: Re: How fast are PDA doubling speed? Not related to Moore's law -:)

Author: Peter Fendrich

Date: 11:52:57 06/20/04

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On June 20, 2004 at 14:07:44, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>On June 20, 2004 at 08:34:03, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>On June 20, 2004 at 05:02:39, Jorge Pichard wrote:
>>
>>>Two years ago it was predicted that a 1GHz PDA was going to be released and so
>>>far we have not seen it :-)
>>>
>>>http://www.pcworld.com/features/article/0,aid,68795,pg,2,00.asp
>>
>>Moore'e law (named after Gordon Moore, founder of Intel) states that the
>>processors will double in speed every 18 months.  Is Moore's law coming to an
>>end?
>
>I never read before of doubling the speed every 18 months, but doubling its
>number of transitors has been accomplished since Morre's law :-)
>
>Jorge

Yes, that's in the original paper but in fact Moore himself applied his law on
several different phenomena including speed.
ftp://download.intel.com/research/silicon/Gordon_Moore_ISSCC_021003.pdf

/Peter



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