Moore's Law in CLEAR Light

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Computers are physical systems: what they can and cannot do is dictated by the laws of physics (1-23). In particular, the speed with which a physical device can process information is limited by its energy (24-27), and the amount of information that it can process is limited by the number of degrees of freedom it possesses (1-2). The way in which it processes information is determined by the fo...

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In 1964, about 6 years after Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce independently hit on the \monolithic idea" of putting both transistors and the wires that connect them onto a single substrate, leading manufacturers had moved from placing two transistors on a single chip to around sixty per chip 24]. Gordon Moore made a prediction, admittedly tongue-in-cheek, that this exponential increase in the number...

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