Moore’s Second Law

April 5, 2004 | Source: Wired

The biggest impediment to our technological future isn’t extending Moore’s law; it’s system efficiency.

We need to improve system layouts and cooling techniques, create better interconnects, reduce sloppy software code, eschew processors that are faster than necessary, and build better batteries.

Moore’s second law could be formulated: “Overall net efficiency of any electronic system will double every 24 months.”