Cloud Computing: Is Moore’s Law Less Important to the Tech Industry?

Grazed from NYTimes. Author: Quentin Hardy.

The central organizing principle of much of the tech industry is Moore’s Law. In one very important sense, it may be of less value than it once was. The rule itself shows no sign of vanishing. Moore’s Law is the notion that the density of transistors on a chip tends to double every 18 to 24 months. It has held up for nearly five decades, and looks to keep going.

That doubling was also a way of organizing the industry, though, and that is what is changing. If chips doubled in power every two years, people wrote device software that anticipated the increase. Performance was steady while features grew. Corporate spending on information technology was keyed to “upgrade cycles.”…

Many businesses timed their major PC purchases to every other cycle, or bought new databases from Oracle when they got new servers…

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