Moore's Law is no more

23 July 2015 - 02:04
By Matthew Lynn, ©The Daily Telegraph

Forget the laws of supply and demand. Stop worrying about the law of diminishing returns, or any of the other iron rules you might find in economic textbooks. In many ways, by far the most important law for the economy over the last 50 years has been a technological one - Moore's Law, the famous prediction by one of the founders of Intel that computing power would double roughly every two years.

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