Moore's Law and Metcalfe's Law (IMAGE)

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Moore's Law and Metcalfe's Law

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F) Gordon Moore, Co-founder of Intel Corporation, and Bob Metcalfe, circa 1990’s having a friendly discussion of their “laws.” Moore's law states that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years. Metcalfe’s law states that the value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (V~N^2).

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