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Re:Memory Is Holding Up the Moore's Law Progression of Proce... by Symmetry on Monday October 19, 2015 @09:58AM (#10412906)
Moore's 1965 paper was about transistor count doubling every 12 months rather than frequency but "Moore's Law" didn't come into use as a term until 1975, by which time Moore was giving shrinking feature sizes equal billing[1]. And Moore himself wrote a memo endorsing a more general use of the term "Moore's Law" for any chip performance metric that doubles regularly. I can't find a copy online but I have it in my old Computer Architecture lecture notes. And performance and scaling were identical as long as Dennard scaling[2] lasted.

[1]http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~agrawvd/COURSE/E7770_Spr07/READ/G...

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling

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