Autonomic Computing

Moore's Law

The IT industry has its own measure of speed. For more than three decades, it has been an unshakable principle of the computer industry that every 18 months, the number of transistors that will fit on a silicon chip doubles.

The phenomenon known as Moore's Law, named for the semiconductor pioneer who first observed it, has been the basic force underlying the computer revolution and the rise of the Internet. Moore made his prediction in 1965 for an article he was writing for a magazine.^[1] Later, he had to revise his initial prediction of 24 months for each doubling of chip capacity. And while it is not an actual physical law, his observation has taken on an almost mystical quality as the clearest expression of the power of human science ...