Pocket Supercomputer:Steady Improvement of Chip Technology

Abstract

Smartphones: These are computer, telephone, MP3 player, Navigation equipment and many more. Possibly this makes the steady progress of chip technology. Gordon Moore formulated in 1960 that law which since then pushes on progress of semiconductor technique. About every 18 months the efficiency of chips is doubled as the case may be and correspondingly their size and prices are also being reduced. That this law today is known to the engineers attached to manufacturers and has a simple basis. All the progress of the chip-technique knocks down more or less distinctly also in that production which are prepared with these chips. Example Cray-2 the fastest supercomputer at that time in the year 1985. The computer was distinctly about 1m³ big, weighed 2.5 tons inclusive of fluid cooling medium and had a computing efficiency which lies in the dimension of iphone 4 of Apple. That appeared in the year 2010 was smaller than 10 mm thick and weighed 137 gms. Griffiger could hardly present that in 25 years of technique development of computer to smart-phone.