Technology Trends

Capacity Speed

Logic 2X in 2 years 2X in 3 years

DRAM 4X in 3 years 1.4X in 10 years

Disk 4X in 3 years 1.4X in 10 years

Different rates mean relationships change;

e.g., memory used to be faster than Add logic,

now it's ~1000X slower!