For example a SD card that holds like 2GB of memory today is about the same size of one that held 256 MB a few years ago. Another example is the Game boy cartridges they used to be pretty large now their all condensed into a chip.|||Moore%26#039;s Law describes a long-term trend in the history of computing hardware. Rather than being a naturally-occurring %26quot;law%26quot; that cannot be controlled, however, Moore%26#039;s Law is effectively a business practice in which the advancement of transistor counts in some chips (such as processors) occurs at a fixed rate. [see image]
Since the invention of the integrated circuit in 1958, the number of transistors that can be placed inexpensively on an integrated circuit has increased exponentially, doubling approximately every two years.
Simply put, every year semiconductors including flash memory become more dense (read: higher capacity) and cheaper to manufacture.|||Well, one of the factors is falling production costs of these technologies. They had 2GB cards a few years ago; they just were so expensive that they weren%26#039;t popular, so companies didn%26#039;t advertise them as much. For example, right now there are 128GB USB thumbdrives, but nobody buys them because they are ridiculously expensive. As for the gameboy cartridges, the ones for the gameboy advance are mostly plastic. They shrunk them by eliminating most of the plastic, as well as switching to an interface that requires less pins.|||This has been the trend in history in science and technology. Prior to the creation of desktop computers during the idea of the father of modern computers Charles Babbage, mechanical and electro-mechanical devices were created for data processing. Mark1, a calculator used by Jon von Neumann to speed up the census would stand as big as a classroom, compare to calculators now are only accessories to a very small multi-tasking cell phone smaller than a palm of a hand.
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