Discussion Week 3 - Moore's Law

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“From the chart, estimate (roughly) the number of transistors per IC in 2016. Using your estimate and Moore’s Law, what would you predict the number of transistors per IC to be in 2040?” Moore’s Law: states that the progress of technology (measured in different ways) doubles every 2 years.
The easiest way to approach this problem is to create an equation we can place the relevant numbers into. We’re focusing on how to predict the number of transistors per IC in a future year, so the equation that we’re going to make can be equal to F. It looks like we’re often going to be
analyzing the number of transistors in a current (or past) year, so I’ll signify that as C. Finally, we’ll want to focus on a key part of the Moore’s Law statement: that the progress of technology doubles every 2 years. Here we will use n, which is the number of years between F and C. It’s important to take 2 and multiply it by n over 2,
because Moore’s Law specifies that the technology doubles every 2 years. F = numbers of transistors per IC in a future year C = numbers of transistors per IC in a current (or past) year n = number of years divided by 2 If you take all of this and put it together you get an
equation that looks like this: F = C * 2^(n/2) We can use the aforementioned discussion prompt to get the numbers we want to plug in. Estimated # of transistors in 2016: ~600,000,000 = C # of transistors in 2040: ??? = F Number of years: 2040- 2016 = 24 = (n/2)
F = 600,000,000 * 2^(24/2) Simplify to: F = 600,000,000 * 2^(12) Simplify again: F= 600,000,000 * 4096 Multiply: F = 2,457,600,000,000 estimated transistors in 2040 “From the chart, estimate (roughly) the number of transistors per IC in 2016. Using your
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