Moore’s Law

Fifty years of doubling

An interactive lesson with 6 steps, about 5 minutes: you predict, drag and solve, with instant feedback on every answer. It runs in your browser and needs JavaScript.

What you’ll learn

• Moore’s law: transistor counts doubled about every two years for half a century.
• Exponential growth appears as a straight line on a logarithmic scale.
• Shrinking now faces atomic and quantum limits; progress continues through 3D designs.

Steps

1. Gordon Moore’s guess
2. Fit the doubling time
3. Shrinking transistors
4. Limits
5. Shrinking features
6. Predict a chip