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To: zbyslaw owczarczyk who wrote (8036)	8/16/2000 11:15:23 AM
From: Jeff Hayden	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12823

OT - Zbyslaw, I was referring to the progression of electronics through the continuous reduction in feature size. Moore's law applies to that - not to BMW's. The features for making CCD's or CMOS imaging chips progress according to the law - the area size of a pixel decreases by about 0.5 every 18 months or so. At the same time the price remains relatively constant - so the resolution improves by about 2X every 18 months - but the price remains the same. If you look at the price of computers since the '90's you will see that the capability of a computer has increased tremendously - yet the price has actually decreased. Labor has some affect on this, but Moore's law has a much more powerful affect. Today's computer will be junk in 2006. The computer of 2006 will cost $800-$2500 - just like today - except it will be about 16X faster and have about 16X more memory. Jeff