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Monday 7 July 2008, 1:10 AM
Euro spintronics gives a different shape to Moore's Law
But that's not the best bit of the press release. In paragraph two, they warm up the audience with some boilerplate technojoy. With one small innovation...
"In the 1960s, Henry Moore observed that it took around 18 months for silicon chip manufacturers to shrink their technology and fit twice as many transistors into the same area of silicon."
Henry Moore is famous for many things, including being the leading abstract sculptor of the 20th century and producing wobbly shapes so monumental that they're now being stolen for the sheer value of their bronze. But I don't know whether his observations preceded those by Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, whose 1965 paper is normally thought to have spawned the eponymous law.
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Well I never! I always thought it was Patrick Moore...
We asked Patrick. Unfortunately, he just Doesn't Know.
We asked Roger. He just raised an eyebrow.
We asked Brian. He said "It's up for grabs now!"
We asked Dennis. He said that every two years, the lupin supply doubles.
We asked Bobby. He said that that every two years, the chances of West Ham winning anything roughly halves.
Any Moore laws?
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What about Demi? Every two years, the age of her husband halves.
We asked Michael Moore. Every two years the global crisis gets twice as hilarious
We asked Sir Thomas. He said that every two years, he burns twice as many Lutherans, but that they burn twice as fast.
I asked Alan Moore. He said "Are you aware how common a surname Moore is, you cretin? This isn't remotely funny."
Then he hit me over the head with a rolled up copy of Whizzer and Chips and turned me into a snake.
We also asked Thurston Moore, but we're still waiting for his feedback...
We asked the river Dart, but it just ran off...
I've just seen a reference to "Sir" Gordon Moore's Law
http://www.itvoir.com/portal/boxx/knowledgebase.asp?iid=1191&Cat=23
Good to see him get the recognition he deserved.
Ah, brave Sir Gordon!
