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Original title: "Gordon Moore dies! what is the enlightenment of Moore's Theorem to the scientific and technological community? "

"the performance of the chip doubles every 18 months", which is predicted, but it is regarded as the "truth" in the ever-changing semiconductor industry. After more than half a century of testing, can it withstand the impact of technologies such as artificial intelligence in the future?

Wen Jing | Wen Jing

Visual Design | Xia Meng

Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, who proposed that "the number of transistors that can hold on integrated circuits doubles every two years," died at his home in Hawaii on March 24 local time at the age of 94.

Moore's law was later modified by David House, Intel's chief executive, to "expect 18 months to double the performance of the chip (that is, more transistors to make it faster)".

This is the "Moore's Law" that has accompanied the semiconductor industry for more than half a century.

Although Moore's Law has been established in recent decades, it should still be regarded as an observation of phenomena or speculation about the future, rather than as a law of physics or a law of nature.

Shockley Lab Co., Ltd. and "eight Rebels" in order to understand the historical opportunity of Gordon Moore's "Moore's Law", we have to introduce two scientists.

William Shockley (William Shockley): English-born American physicist and inventor who won the 1956 Nobel Prize in physics for co-inventing the transistor with John Bardeen and Walter Braden.

Arnold Orville Beckman (Arnold Orville Beckman) invented the pH meter in 1934, which is considered to have "revolutionized the study of chemistry and biology"; he also developed the DU spectrophotometer, which is considered to be "probably the most important instrument ever developed for advances in the biological sciences".

In 1955, William Shockley, funded by Beckman, founded Shockley Laboratories Co., Ltd. in Mountain View, California. It was the first silicon transistor company in California and is believed to have created what is now Silicon Valley.

Shockley Laboratories Co., Ltd. hired a lot of young and talented people, but because Shockley's personal management method was at odds with the young team, eight key employees of the company resigned collectively in 1957. Shockley called the eight "The Traitorous Eight".

Robert Robert Noyce (fourth from left), Gordon Moore (first from left), Sheldon Roberts (Sheldon Roberts), Julia Blank (Julius Blank), Eugene Kleiner (Eugene Kleiner), Jean Hoerni, Jay Lsat, Victor Grinnich Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel "eight Rebellion" founded Fairchild Semiconductor (Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation). Later, the first integrated circuit was developed.

When Gordon Moore was the R & D director of Fairchild Semiconductor, he was invited by Electronics magazine to answer the question of "predicting what will happen in the semiconductor components industry in the next decade" and put forward Moore's Law.

Moore's Law: transistor Counting 1970-2020 in 1968, Moore and Robert Noyce founded NM Electronics, later Intel. Under the leadership of Noyce, Moore and later Andrew Grove, Intel pioneered new technologies in the field of computer memory, integrated circuit and microprocessor design.

Robert Noyce has the title of "Mayor of Silicon Valley" or "the Mayor of Silicon Valley of Silicon Valley". Noyce is also one of the inventors of integrated circuits in electronic components, and his invention played a key role in the popularity of personal computers.

In 1970, Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce at Intel, judging from Gordon Moore's life, we know that scientific inventions are both inherited and rebellious, and that we want human scientific and technological achievements to reach as many people as possible. you have to take a commercial "fast boat".

Every technology that can be widely promoted, in addition to strong technical support and potential user market, also requires scientists or managers with business ideas to cooperate with scientists to complete the communication between theoretical research and practical applications.

After all, the progress of science and technology is to serve the needs of the people. If a technology is "economic" enough, then it will develop rapidly. As for how far Moore's Theorem can go in the future, the key is to see whether the benefits brought by the frequency of technological renewal outweigh the investment needed. that is, whether the factors that limit technological renewal (energy, materials, theoretical basis, physical limits, etc.) are so large that we need to compromise.

If there is a new technology that can promote the semiconductor industry to further take off on the existing development trend, it must be a positive change that the whole society would like to see. If the development of the semiconductor industry slows down due to various factors, then there must be other areas of science and technology quietly developed to support the "slow" progress of human civilization.

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