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  • moore's law — (architecture)   /morz law/ The observation, made in 1965 by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore while preparing a speech, that each new memory integrated circuit contained roughly twice as much capacity as its predecessor, and each chip was released within 18-24 months of the previous chip. If this trend continued, he reasoned, computing power would rise exponentially with time. Moore's observation still holds in 1997 and is the basis for many performance forecasts. In 24 years the number of transistors on processor chips has increased by a factor of almost 2400, from 2300 on the Intel 4004 in 1971 to 5.5 million on the Pentium Pro in 1995 (doubling roughly every two years). Date Chip Transistors MIPS clock/MHz ----------------------------------------------- Nov 1971 4004 2300 0.06 0.108 Apr 1974 8080 6000 0.64 2 Jun 1978 8086 29000 0.75 10 Feb 1982 80286 134000 2.66 12 Oct 1985 386DX 275000 5 16 Apr 1989 80486 1200000 20 25 Mar 1993 Pentium 3100000 112 66 Nov 1995 Pentium Pro 5500000 428 200 ----------------------------------------------- Moore's Law has been (mis)interpreted to mean many things over the years. In particular, microprocessor performance has increased faster than the number of transistors per chip. The number of MIPS has, on average, doubled every 1.8 years for the past 25 years, or every 1.6 years for the last 10 years. While more recent processors have had wider data paths, which would correspond to an increase in transistor count, their performance has also increased due to increased clock rates. Chip density in transistors per unit area has increased less quickly - a factor of only 146 between the 4004 (12 mm^2) and the Pentium Pro (196 mm^2) (doubling every 3.3 years). Feature size has decreased from 10 to 0.35 microns which would give over 800 times as many transistors per unit. However, the automatic layout required to cope with the increased complexity is less efficient than the hand layout used for early processors. See also Parkinson's Law of Data.
  • moral sense — the ability to determine the rightness or wrongness of actions.
  • morse taper — a taper that is one of a standard series used in the shank of tools to fit a matching taper in the mandrel of a machine tool
  • mortadellas — Plural form of mortadella.
  • mortalities — Plural form of mortalitie.
  • most-caller — (of fruit, fish, vegetables, etc.) fresh; recently picked or caught.
  • motherlands — Plural form of motherland.
  • motorsailer — A boat equipped with both sails and an engine.
  • moviemakers — Plural form of moviemaker.
  • museography — The systematic description of objects in museums.
  • nanospheres — Plural form of nanosphere.
  • narco-state — a country in which the illegal trade in narcotic drugs forms a substantial part of the economy
  • narrow seas — the channels between Great Britain and the Continent and Great Britain and Ireland
  • nasi goreng — a dish, originating in Malaysia, consisting of rice fried with a selection of other ingredients
  • nearshoring — the practice of moving one's employees or business activities from a distant country back to a country that is nearby: The U.S.-based company is focusing on the nearshoring of its customer-service operations from India to Canada. Compare offshoring.
  • nefariously — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
  • negotiators — Plural form of negotiator.
  • nematodirus — any parasitic nematode worm of the genus Nematodirus
  • neo-realism — art, cinema: social realist style
  • neoliberals — Plural form of neoliberal.
  • neuroblasts — Plural form of neuroblast.
  • neuroplasty — Any surgery to repair nerve tissue.
  • new flavors — An object-oriented Lisp from Symbolics, the successor to Flavors, it led to CLOS.
  • new orleans — a seaport in SE Louisiana, on the Mississippi: British defeated (1815) by Americans under Andrew Jackson.
  • nitrogenase — an enzyme complex that catalyzes the reduction of molecular nitrogen in the nitrogen-fixation process of bacteria.
  • nitrosamine — any of a series of compounds with the type formula R 2 NNO, some of which are carcinogenic, formed in cured meats by the conversion of nitrite.
  • nitrosourea — any of various lipid-soluble, synthetic or naturally occurring alkylating agents that can cross the blood-brain barrier: used in the treatment of certain brain cancers.
  • noisemakers — Plural form of noisemaker.
  • non-starter — If you describe a plan or idea as a non-starter, you mean that it has no chance of success.
  • nonabrasive — not causing abrasion.
  • nondurables — Plural form of nondurable.
  • nonpersonal — Not personal.
  • nonresonant — That does not resonate.
  • nonreusable — not capable of being reused
  • nonspecular — that reflects light diffusely and evenly over the hemisphere surrounding the reflective surface; diffuse
  • nonstarters — Plural form of nonstarter.
  • nonstriated — not striated; unstriped, as certain muscular tissue.
  • normalities — conforming to the standard or the common type; usual; not abnormal; regular; natural.
  • normanesque — in the style of Norman architecture, a variety of Romanesque architecture.
  • northeaster — New England and South Atlantic States. a wind or gale from the northeast.
  • nose around — pry, snoop
  • nosy parker — a prying person
  • noun phrase — a construction that functions syntactically as a noun, consisting of a noun and any modifiers, as all the men in the room who are reading books, or of a noun substitute, as a pronoun.
  • nourishable — able to be nourished; benefiting from nourishment
  • numerations — Plural form of numeration.
  • obliterates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obliterate.
  • obsecration — to entreat solemnly; beseech; supplicate.
  • observables — Plural form of observable.
  • observances — Plural form of observance.
  • observantly — quick to notice or perceive; alert.
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