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   Moore's Law

   noun

   • 1. the principle that the speed and capability of computers can be expected to double every two years, as a result of increases in the number of transistors a microchip can contain: "even if Moore's Law fails in the future, new methods of computing may again set the industry on breakneck development speeds"

   Word Origin 1970s: named for American microchip manufacturer Gordon Earle Moore, who first proposed such an idea in 1965.

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