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Moore s Law Fast Cheap Computing and What It Means for the Manager 11 29 2012 Moore s Law faster cheaper computing Consisted of computer pieces o Microprocessor part of the computer that executes the instructions of a computer program o Random access Memory RAM chip based memory Volatile memory when lose power lose Nonvolatile memory permanent storage flash o Flash memory holds data when power is off in cameras MP3 players and USB drives Solid state electronics no moving parts so less o Optical fiber line what networking data flows over information drive likely to fail Price elasticity tech products are HIGHLY elastic people will buy more products as they become cheaper Five waves of computing 1 1960s computers were room sized and only for big businesses 2 1970s mini computers still size of fridges 3 1980s cheap enough for households to have them 4 1990s cheaper and use of the internet 5 2000s computers are so fast and inexpensive that they are now a necessity Apple has capitalized off of the fifth wave of computers Amazon decline in price of chips helped amazon make affordable kindle Multicore microprocessors two or more lower power processor cores on a single chip keeps it cooled down draws less power Supercomputers computers that are among the fastest of any in the world at the time of their introduction Moore s Law Fast Cheap Computing and What It Means for the Manager 11 29 2012 Ex IBM deep blue Massively parallel processing computers designed with many microprocessors that work together simultaneously to solve problems Grid computing further transforming the economics of supercomputing by placing special software s on existing PCs to enable computers to work together to solve common problems Software as a service SaaS many softwares that work together to run one program Server farm creating entirely new businesses that promise to radically redraw the software and hardware landscape while bringing huge computing power to the little guy e waste consumers throwing away old tech products Causing 2 5 million tons of garbage in the US Contain huge amounts of precious metals


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