Systems Architecture

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Empirical laws of computing

Moore’s law: density of silicon chip (number of transistors) increases 2x every 1.5 (2) years

Rock’s law: cost of equipment to produce chips increases 2x every 4 years

Koomey’s law: energy efficiency increases 2x every 1.5 years

Metcalfe’s law: usefulness of network is around n² for n users/objects