{"slug": "ai-and-moores-law-its-the-chips-stupid", "title": "AI and Moore’s Law: It’s the Chips, Stupid", "summary": "Moore's Law has evolved from a 60-year-old observation about transistor density doubling every 18 months into an economic principle focused on the 50% cost reduction of chips per silicon area. Achieving this economic effect now relies on techniques like multiple cores, System-On-Chip design, and unified memory, as physically etching thinner lines becomes increasingly difficult.", "body_md": "Sorry I’ve been away: time flies when you are not having fun. But now I’m back. Moore’s Law, which began with a random observation by the late Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that transistor densities on silicon substrates were doubling every 18 months, has over the intervening 60+ years been both borne-out yet also changed from a lithography technical feature to an economic law. It’s getting harder to etch ever-thinner lines, so we’ve taken as a culture to emphasizing the cost part of Moore’s Law (chips drop in price by 50 percent on an area basis (dollars per acre of silicon) every 18 months). We can accomplish this economic effect through a variety of techniques including multiple cores, System-On-Chip design, and unified memory — anything to […]\nThe post AI and Moore’s Law: It’s the Chips, Stupid first appeared on I, Cringely.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-and-moores-law-its-the-chips-stupid", "canonical_source": "https://www.cringely.com/2023/06/15/ai-and-moores-law-its-the-chips-stupid/", "published_at": "2023-06-15 14:20:49+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-22 20:46:02.819203+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["semiconductor", "artificial-intelligence", "hardware"], "entities": ["Gordon Moore", "Intel", "Moore's Law"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-and-moores-law-its-the-chips-stupid", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-and-moores-law-its-the-chips-stupid.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-and-moores-law-its-the-chips-stupid.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/ai-and-moores-law-its-the-chips-stupid.jsonld"}}