N2TK wrote:
In 1965 Gordon Moore stated "The number of transistors on a chip will double
about every two years". In 1968 this became known as Moore's law.
Typically this is done through shrinking geometries.
There is actually a problem with this in that, in the near future,
scaling will reach a point where the physics breaks down and oxide
thicknesses are so small that electrons simply (quantum mechanically)
tunnel through them, and the number of electrons in a memory cell
capacitor tends to one. Quite a few sources suggest this will be around
the end of the decade.
Unless some other way of continuing the speed up process can be found,
this might have an interesting effect on the rate of software
"inventions", as many of these aren't really new ideas, but ones that
would have run too slowly at the time they were first thought of.
Incidentally, Peter Hart's review volunteers that the K3 is effectively
an SDR. (Also for those not familiar with RadCom, Peter Hart does solid
technical reviews, however they also have reviewers who are basically
journalists (the one who did the handie one used to work for a
commercial ham magazine). Increasingly the journalist reviews seem to
be infomercials, as the RSGB shop then (acting as an order taking agent)
sells the products at a discount.)
--
David Woolley
Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want.
RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam,
that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.
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