To: Math Junkie who wrote (48942 ) 7/9/2001 8:49:06 PM From: Hayduke Read Replies (1) | Respond to Richard, Moore's Law is an approximation that gives a nice straight line, but like most rules of thumb is only valid over a limited range. Within that range subsequent generations of silicon transistors were shrunk by an evolutionary process - the process tools may have changed and become far more sophisticated, but the basic idea was the same - slice the silicon's active region a little thinner and ditto for the insulator. For those conceptually simple changes you were guaranteed higher packing density, faster speeds, and lower power consumption.
