Moore's Law (Compute Economics)
Gordon Moore's observation that the number of transistors on a microchip doubles every two years, driving down compute costs.
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Common Uses
- Long-range capacity planning for compute infrastructure
- Cost-curve forecasting for semiconductor-heavy products
- Strategic bets on which workloads move to which hardware
- Roadmap-planning for software that scales with hardware
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