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Meeting The Maker Of Moore's Law

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It almost feels like a law of nature. You break your two-year-old smartphone. The next day you go the store and find a new one that’s faster and cheaper and just plain better. Computer chips keep getting better — it's a phenomenon that engineers call Moore’s law. And it’s about to celebrate an anniversary.

Next year will mark 50 years since engineer Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel Corporation, made the observation. Now the big question is: how long it will last? Here & Now's tech partner, IEEE Spectrum, sent Rachel Courtland to Hawaii for a rare interview with the man himself.

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This segment aired on December 12, 2014.

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