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by randommodnar 3695 days ago
Can we quit with the Moore's law bullshit? It's not a law! It's just an observation about the direction a graph seems to be moving.

Yeah, we hope processors keep getting more powerful. Calling this "Moore's law" is idiotic. And probably confuses poor journalists and undergrads.

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In all fairness the article says:

"Despite its official sound, it is not actually a scientific rule like Newton’s laws of motion. Instead, it describes the pace of change in a manufacturing process that has made computers exponentially more affordable."

It is amazingly interesting and coincidental that the 'law' seems to hold true, year after year.