The Moore's Law Update NOTE: this is a semi-log graph, so a straight line is an exponential; each y-axis tick is 100x. This graph covers a 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000x improvement in computation/$. Pause to let that sink in. Humanity’s capacity to compute has compounded for as long as we can measure it,... See more

A new technology appeared on the horizon but at an infant state: extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUV). The U.S. government thought this was going to be the key technology for microchip production, and the Department of Energy sponsored development of it in a working group with Intel, AMD, and Motorola. In 1999, a small Dutch company joined the

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