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40th Anniversary of Moore's Law -- Moore's Law In Action: Smaller, more powerful electronics products are the result of a prediction made 40 years ago by Gordon Moore, who said that the number of transistors on a chip doubles, the cost of electronics drops significantly. In 1981 for $1795,

the 24-pound Osborne 1 portable computer (top of picture) featuring a 4 MHz processor was the best mobile computer money could buy. Today, laptops weigh less than four pounds and come with microprocessors that are measured in gigahertz. Even mobile phones today have many times more processing power than the Osborne 1.

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