Let’s rewind to 1965. Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel and all-around computer wizard, looked at early microchips and said:
“You know what? Every two years, we’ll probably double the number of transistors we can cram onto a chip.”
This wasn’t a law like gravity — more like an ambitious prediction. But for decades, the tech world took it very seriously.
💻 How Did That Work?
Imagine your smartphone today…
Now imagine that 20 years ago, it was a potato with a screen.
Thanks to Moore’s Law, we went from potato to pocket wizard machine—fast.
🐌 But Then It Slowed Down…
Turns out, shoving billions of tiny electrical doors (aka transistors) onto a chip is hard when you’re already operating at atomic levels. You can’t exactly slice an atom in half and call it progress.
Also: too many transistors = 🔥 = melty computers.
👴 Is Moore’s Law Dead?
Nah, it’s just having a midlife crisis.
Instead of getting smaller, chips got smarter:
- More brains (cores) working together
- Chips made just for AI
- Engineers yelling at electrons to behave
And boom—progress continues, just in new, sneaky ways.
🤯 So What Now?
We’re entering the “Okay-but-let’s-get-weird” era:
- Chips that think like brains 🧠
- Computers powered by light ✨
- Quantum chips doing math in alternate dimensions (probably)
🎉 TL;DR
- Moore’s Law = computers get 2x smarter every 2 years
- That worked for a long time
- Now we’re hitting physical limits, but humans are clever
- Innovation hasn’t stopped — it’s just… shape-shifted
So next time your phone updates and starts acting smarter than you?
Thank Gordon Moore. Then tell it to chill.
