The New Law That’s Making Phones Smaller and Robots (Potentially) Immortal
Computer hardware manufacturers have been guided by Moore’s law—that chips double in power every 18 months—for decades. A newly discovered trend, however, seems to be outpacing old Moore, making computers and mobile devices more power efficient in the same timeframe. The trend, now called “Koomey’s Law,” was discovered by Stanford University’s consulting professor of civil…