Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles about every two years, with minimal increase in cost. Despite the name, Moore's law describes an empirica
A 1982 Osborne Executive portable computer, with a 4 MHz 8-bit Zilog Z80 CPU, and a 2007 Apple iPhone with a 412 MHz 32-bit ARM11 CPU; the Executive has 100 times the weight, almost 500 times the volume, approximately 10 times the inflation-adjusted cost, and 1/100th the clock frequency of the smartphone.