As the cost of computer power to the consumer falls, the cost for producers to fulfill Moore’s law follows an opposite trend: R&D, manufacturing, and test costs have increased steadily with each new generation of chips.
Moore’s second law
[A] capital cost of a semiconductor fabrication plant increases exponentially over time.
[B] capital cost of a semiconductor fabrication plant decreases exponentially over time.
[C] capital cost of a semiconductor fabrication plant will not change over time.
[D] capital cost of a semiconductor fabrication plant decrease slowly over time.
Moore’s second law -also called Rock’s law
Capital cost of a semiconductor fabrication plant increases exponentially over time.
- As the cost of computer power to the consumer falls, the cost for producers to fulfill Moore’s law follows an opposite trend: R&D, manufacturing, and test costs have increased steadily with each new generation of chips.
- This led to the formulation of Moore’s second law, also called Rock’s law (named after Arthur Rock), which is that the capital cost of a semiconductor fabrication plant also increases exponentially over time.
