Answer Key: Moore's Law_Worksheet
Answer Key: Moore’s Law Worksheet
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Transistors, Computer Chip, Doubles, Two Years
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By doubling a penny just 30 times, you get over $10M. By doubling the number of transistors every two years, for decades, today’s computer chips can have over a billion transistors
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Better, Faster, Cheaper
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Many possible answers, for example:
- calculators do many more functions (scientific, graphing) and basic ones are much cheaper
- cell phones are smaller, cheaper and smarter (now with computer-like functions)
- digital music player hold thousands of CD quality sounds, and some play videos too -
Since Moore’s Law doubles every two years, in four years an iPod should hold 4 times more music/videos
- Better, Faster, Cheaper: A flight from Los Angeles to New York might include arcade-style video games, take only 15 minutes and cost $10
