27. What do we learn about Gordon Moore's personality in the first two paragraphs?
28. What do we learn about Intel when it was first established?
29. What is stated about the setting up of Intel in the third paragraph?
True if the statement agrees with the claims of the writer
False if the statement contradicts the claims of the writer
Not Given if it is impossible to say what the writer thinks
30. Competitors soon came close to catching up with Intel's progress.
31. Intel's Pentium®4 chip was more successful than Moore had anticipated.
32. Moore's prediction in 1975 was based on too little evidence.
33. Flashing trainers are an example of Moore's theory about the relationship between cost and applications.
34. Moore has always been confident that problems concerning the size of components will be overcome.
Moores Law
Examples of SRGordon Moore's ability to foresee developments is well-known. In 1965, he referred to the increase in the 35 of integrated circuits and guessed that the number of transistors would go on rising for a decade. The 36 of his prediction surprised him. Previously, the 37 and main 38 of integrated circuits had been the major 39 with regard to their development. But Moore observed that the
40 of integrated circuits was going to improve dramatically. His resulting forecasts concerning chips led to the creation of the term 'Moore's Law'.design
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