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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (9626)	11/27/1997 6:30:00 PM
From: Elllk	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18056

Zeev Just wondering if I have it right since I thought Moore's Law referred only to chip performance doubling every 18 months. Did he formulate something about price as well or is that implied as an outcome of the doubling of performance?, etc? Larry

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (9626)	11/27/1997 7:51:00 PM
From: Joseph G.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18056

Zeev, nearly everything that's defined well enough to be classified. -g- Like this <<The fact that there is in motion an inexorable move to a freer world>> is not a fact, and, in fact, can't be a fact. Is it politically "freer world", or economically, or what? The first two - I can't recall any events of any significance in the last 5 - 7 years to substantiate this "New Era" fantasy, and, indeed, events of last couple of months have illustrated its fallacy. The fact is that neither you, nor I (nor anybody else) can possibly know the future as it regards socio-economo-political developments. Thus, anything said about such developments that may or may not happen in the future is, basically, fantasy. Moore, BTW, said number of transistors, or gates, per unit area of the chip, will increase at a rate of doubling every 1 1/2 years. Which means, lithographic linewidths will decrease by 1.4 in that time period. It has not been that fast for last couple of years already, and is likely to slow down in the future. Joe