Moore's Law: After All, What Is It All About? Moore's Law: After All, What Is It All About?

We live in a century in which human beings are highly integrated with machines. When we make a brief clipping of this scenario, we realize that we carry — sometimes in our hands, sometimes in our pockets — extremely advanced cell phones and, on our wrists, smartwatches responsible for monitoring the body. We've also seen greater interaction between humans and their respective homes, thanks to the advent and growing popularization of smarthome devices.

Software is making significant progress, with AIs leading this movement. The smarter and more connected world was made possible only by advances in the area of ​​computing hardware. The increase in processing power (which makes everything seem instantaneous) together with the miniaturization of devices were important steps to reach the current stage of development.

In this sense, it is worth remembering that, like nature, computing goes through the process of evolution, undergoing transformations which indicate the path of advancement. In the same way that our reality, in the material sense, is governed by physical and chemical principles, computing has laws that guide its progress. In today's post, let's understand Moore's Law.

What is Moore's Law
Before understanding Moore's Law, it is necessary to understand the concept of law for science.

"A law is a rule based on some phenomenon, a generalization that is confronted, tested and validated against a wide range of facts with a chronological, logical and causal sense." (Jaleko Blog, 2019)

The Law of Universal Gravitation is a perfect example of a scientific law. This clearly and logically defines one of the forces of interaction between bodies, and the phenomenon studied is perceptible in the Universe and, above all, natural.

Moore's Law postulates that the number of transistors in an IC — Integrated Circuit — doubles every period of time. In 1965, the time span was close to 12 months, but after 1975 it became 24 months. This law does not qualify as scientific, since the object of study (transistors) is not something spontaneous from nature, but artificial and of human creation.