The Amount of Chips in our lives
In the past decade, many different innovations in the nano-technology sector have to left us discover copious amounts of chips in our daily lives.
Example: Wifi, it became a standard in laptops some years back. Since then, engineers have been able to shrink it down to fit inside of cell phones and other small devices. All this development to add a convenience to your life and another chip in your pocket.
Moore’s Law states, “The number of transistors that can be inexpensively placed on an integrated circuit is increasing exponentially, doubling approximately every two years.” Basically, all electronics are inherently becoming exponentially more complicated, expensive, and smaller. Moore’s Law was originated by by Intel’s cofounder Gordon E. Moore in 1965.
Today, Intel still holds true to Moore’s Law. It costs $3 billion to $5 billion to build a single semiconductor fabrication plant but in a few years, that number could rise to $12 billion. Processors are simply becoming smaller and smaller, to the point that transistors in a high-end chip are no wider than the nucleus of a small cell. Intel is destined to carry on this process till it’s death or until another, more economical, process is discovered.
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