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Computer Hardware:From Wikipedia
Although I have watched the development of computers over the past decades until reading this article I never knew how very little I know about computers. Most of the terms such as Motherboard, CPU, Ram, CD/DVD drives, Hard Disk, and Power Supply just to name a few are terms that I have been familiar with or at least had heard about from my working around computers. If asked to explain or show the relationship of the various pieces of hardware I would not have been able to do that task. This article was very helpful for me i showing the diagrams and relationships of the various hardware. I could further click on the names of the different parts to get a more detailed description and definition. It will be very helpful to me in my future studies and work with Information Technology.
Moore's Law & Computer History Museum
I was amazed at the trend in the history of computer hardware and the size and amount of transistors that are being placed on integrated circuits. The fact that the number is doubling approximately every two years is remarkable. Moore's law has caused much controversy among various scientific settings: economical, social, political, mathematical, etc. There are many who think his law will not hold up over time. Christie Nicholson in the video explaining Moore's law state the transistors will become so compact they will lose their ability to work. The transistors are reaching the size of molecules. Some say the closer they reach the size of atoms Moore's law will fall apart. When viewing the timeline of the computer and exploring the Computer History Museum it came to my attention that one computer use to take up many rooms of space. No one ever thought you would be able to have something as small as a molecule acting as a computer. Throughout time man has been at the crossroads of predicting failure when dealing with the unknown. Could it be possible that somewhere in the future using Moore's law man will be designing transistors that ride on the electrons inside of atoms?
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I believe that in relation to Moore's Law the focus has been so much on how small the transistor is and how many there are that the idea of changing technology has been too tightly defined. While Moore said that the law was only for semiconductor circuits, who says that when the transistors are the size of molecules or atoms that there is not another technology that has replaced transistors? While the law may end with the specific transistor technology, it may continue, in spirit, with a new and different development. ~April
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