How It Works
Moore's Law
The observation that the number of transistors on a computer chip roughly doubles about every two years, making computers steadily faster and cheaper. It is a trend, not a law of physics, and it has slowed as transistors approach atomic sizes. In AI discussions it is often used loosely for any fast, compounding improvement, such as the growth in computing power used to train models.
Origin
Named after Gordon Moore, later a co-founder of Intel, who described the trend in a 1965 article in Electronics magazine (doubling every year) and revised it in 1975 to about every two years.