1965, Mr. Gordon E. Moore (co-founder of Intel and Ph.D. in Chemistry) made the following law (thinking to be valid for just some years... but valid till our days after more than 40 years):
"...The number of transistors that can be inexpensively placed on an integrated circuit is increasing exponentially, doubling approximately every two years..."
(from Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law ), but exactly what it means?, and how it affects the modern computers and hardware devices?. Pic 1
Well to be honest any electronic device is linked directly to this law (and of course almost all manufacturers too, that's why they are day by day on a race looking to be at top of the wave). That's right, each moder device you use today (your computer, PSP, smartphone, notebook, GPS system and also your Mp3 player) due more proccessing power, higher speeds and better control of multithreads and internal clocks gave us all those devices we have right now, so at this point let me show you why more transistors means more power:
Taking as starting point that transistors into any CPU carry out each logic operation, each mathematical task is easy suppose that more of these small elements we find into a CPU then the more operations it could run at the same time (saving energy, time and even costs) offering at this way a better performance. Another important thing to keep in mind is the temperature: on a last generation CPU a single transistor represents a load of just one millionth of a milli watt (you may think: so where is the problem it a value alike this to small to be relevant), but if you multiplicate this value for all those transistors located on a standard CPU (more than a milliard or one thousand million) could "burn" the proccessor and all the transistors into it. So creating smaller CPUs also helps to gain higher speed of proccessing without altering the max level of load and temperature that is around to 150 watt, it means more efficient the CPU is then less energy uses and less hot it will be.
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