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Defines the observation and illustrates its competitive consequence, but does not develop its technical history or mechanisms.

Moore's law

As explained in Tech Startup Toolkit

An empirical observation that the number of transistors on a computer chip, along with its processing power, tends to double approximately every two years.

Moore's law is an observation, not a physical law: the number of transistors in a computer chip, along with its processing power, tends to double about every two years. The practical warning is sharper: a specialized machine may lose its advantage as ordinary processors become faster. section 1.3

When ordinary processors win

A company built powerful machines that processed searches across many processors for customers including American Express and The New York Times. It beat Thinking Machines, but normal Intel processors kept improving and eventually erased the machines' advantage, helping bring the business down. section 1.3

Use the observation as a practical startup check:

Ask whether improving general-purpose hardware could make a specialized product less valuable before its market matures. section 1.3

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