[Retric]

The original use was in terms of transistors in an integrated circuit doubling every year at identical cost. That rate was revised down by Moore multiple times.

So it doesn’t have a firm definition, but ever larger and more expensive chips isn’t what it was referring to.

[bonesss]

“Moore’s Rule of Thumb” is a descriptor I read in a hard print magazine back when my phone had buttons and we all wore onions tied to our belts.

A critical insight for its time, but not quite a thermodynamic principle our great-grand kids will be able to verify on their fancy new modern phones that finally got buttons.