2023-04-23 13:30:00
On March 24th, the world said goodbye to Gordon Moore. You may not even know him, but unless you’re totally isolated from the world’s technological innovations, you’ve already heard of a concept that was named following him: the Lei de Moore.
Gordon Earle Moore was born in 1929 in the United States and co-founded the Intel Corporation. He studied Chemistry and Physics at the University of California (at Berkeley) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). In 1956, he started working at the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, but soon joined Robert Noyce and together they founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957. In 1968, Moore and Noyce co-founded the Intel Corporation, which today is one of the world’s largest technology companies. of the world.
In 1965, Moore published an article in which he presented his famous law, which predicted that the density of transistors in integrated circuits would double every two years. This observation became known as Moore’s Law and has been a remarkably accurate prediction of the progress of computing technology over the past five decades. It is no exaggeration to say that both his law and his microprocessor shaped the growth of business and the prosperity of the world. Almost every technology we use every day, from smartphones to cheap laptops and GPSGlobal positioning systemor global positioning system.”>1are a direct consequence of Moore’s prediction, as well as advances in artificial intelligence and so many other things.
The end of Moore’s Law has been announced many times. In 2015, the magazine The Economist published that its end was near. In 2017, the CEOChief executive officeror executive director.”>2 NVIDIA’s Jensen Huang also pointed at his end, indicating that the slowdown was observable. But, in December 2022, the company AMD guaranteed the opposite: the law is still alive, very much alive, only more difficult for companies to follow.
Moore’s Law and Apple products
Apple, as a leader in the technology industry, has been a prime example of applying Moore’s Law to its products over the last 15 years. The evolution of Apple hardware follows the trend of increasing processing power and decreasing the size of devices, as predicted by Moore’s Law.
iPhone
The iPhone is an emblematic example of Moore’s Law in action. Since the launch of the first model in 2007, Apple has launched a series of generations with remarkable advances in performance and storage capacity.
The iPhone 3G, released in 2008, had 8GB of storage and a 412MHz processor. Comparatively, the iPhone 13, released in 2021, features up to 1TB of storage and an A15 Bionic processor, which is significantly faster and more energy efficient than its predecessors.
iPad
The iPad also exemplifies the application of Moore’s Law. Since the introduction of the first iPad in 2010, Apple has continued to improve the device’s performance and reduce its physical size.
The original iPad had the A4 processor (1GHz and 256MB of RAMRandom access memoryor random access memory.”>3), while the iPad Pro released in 2021 has the Apple M1 chip and up to 16GB of memory, offering much higher performance.
MacBook
Apple’s MacBook computers also demonstrate the influence of Moore’s Law.
The MacBook Pro, for example, was released in 2006 with a 1.83GHz Intel Core Duo processor and 512MB of RAM. The 2021 MacBook Pro has the M1 Pro or M1 Max processor, with up to 10 CPU coresCentral processing unitor central processing unit.”>4 and 32 GPU coresGraphics processing unitor graphics processing unit.”>5plus up to 64GB of memory.
These advances in MacBook performance and energy efficiency illustrate the impact of Moore’s Law on Apple products over the years.
Apple Watch
The Apple Watch, released in 2015, is another notable example of how Moore’s Law has been applied across Apple’s product lineup.
The Apple Watch Series 1 had the 32-bit S1 processor, while the Apple Watch Series 7, released in 2021, has a 64-bit S7 processor, providing significant improvements in terms of performance and energy efficiency.
Conclusion
Gordon Moore’s life and work, along with his Moore’s Law, have been instrumental in the evolution of information technology and, specifically, Apple products over the last 15 years.
The practical application of Moore’s Law to the company’s products is evident in the continual improvement in performance and reduction in the physical size of its devices, including the iPhone, iPad, MacBook and Apple Watch.
While Moore’s Law is still relevant, some experts argue that there may eventually be a limit to technological advancement as we approach the physical and material limits of semiconductors. However, until now, Moore’s Law has been a solid guideline for predicting the progress of technology and has undoubtedly played a crucial role in the development of the Apple products we know and love today.
Here’s our goodbye and gratitude to this world technology giant, with a legacy that will be carried for many ages still in humanity.
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