In 1965, engineer Gordon Moore

[predicted](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law) that

transistors on a chip would double every two years in the coming decade

[[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law),

[2](https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/resources/moores-law.html)].

[[1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law)].

You'll compare Moore's prediction against actual transistor counts in

the 53 years following his prediction. You will determine the best-fit constants to describe the exponential growth of transistors on semiconductors compared to Moore's Law.

Now, make a prediction based upon the historical data for

semiconductors per chip. The[Transistor Count

each year is in the`transistor_data.csv` file. Before loading a\*.csv

file into a NumPy array, its a good idea to inspect the structure of the

file first. Then, locate the columns of interest and save them to a

has maintained a consistent increase of $\times 1.98 \pm 0.01$ every two

years from 1971 through 2019. In 2015, Moore revised his prediction to

say Moore's law should hold until 2025.

[[3](https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/gordon-moore-the-man-whose-name-means-progress)].

[[2](https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/gordon-moore-the-man-whose-name-means-progress)].

You can share these results as a zipped NumPy array file,

`mooreslaw_regression.npz`, or as another csv,

`mooreslaw_regression.csv`. The amazing progress in semiconductor

1.["Moore's Law." Wikipedia article. Accessed Oct. 1, 2020.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%27s_law)

2.[Moore, Gordon E. (1965-04-19). "Cramming more components onto integrated circuits". intel.com. Electronics Magazine. Retrieved April 1, 2020.](https://newsroom.intel.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/05/moores-law-electronics.pdf)

3.[Courtland, Rachel. "Gordon Moore: The Man Whose Name Means Progress." IEEE Spectrum. 30 Mar. 2015.](https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/gordon-moore-the-man-whose-name-means-progress).

4.["Transistor Count." Wikipedia article. Accessed Oct. 1, 2020.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count#Microprocessors)

2.[Courtland, Rachel. "Gordon Moore: The Man Whose Name Means Progress." IEEE Spectrum. 30 Mar. 2015.](https://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/gordon-moore-the-man-whose-name-means-progress).

3.["Transistor Count." Wikipedia article. Accessed Oct. 1, 2020.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_count#Microprocessors)