Editing Moore's law (section)

=== Moore's second law ===
{{Further|Moore's second law}}

As the cost of computer power to the consumer falls, the cost for producers to fulfill Moore's law follows an opposite trend: R&D, manufacturing, and test costs have increased steadily with each new generation of chips. The cost of the tools, principally [[extreme ultraviolet lithography]] (EUVL), used to manufacture chips doubles every 4 years.<ref>{{cite report |url=https://www.usitc.gov/publications/332/working_papers/id_058_the_health_and_competitiveness_of_the_sme_industry_final_070219checked.pdf |title=The Health and Competitiveness of the U.S. Semiconductor Manufacturing Equipment Industry |author=VerWey |first=John |date=July 2019 |publisher=U.S. International Trade Commission |page=17 |docket= |quote=The costs required to fabricate chips have increased in a predictable manner, operating under what is referred to Moore's Second Law or "Rock's Law", which says the cost of semiconductor tools doubles every four years. |access-date=30 April 2024}}</ref> Rising manufacturing costs are an important consideration for the sustaining of Moore's law.<ref>{{cite magazine| first1 = Sumner | last1 = Lemon | first2 = Tom | last2 = Krazit |url=http://www.infoworld.com/article/2669732/computer-hardware/with-chips--moore-s-law-is-not-the-problem.html |title=With chips, Moore's Law is not the problem |magazine=Infoworld |date=2005-04-19 |access-date=2011-08-22}}</ref> This led to the formulation of [[Moore's second law]], also called Rock's law (named after [[Arthur Rock]]), which is that the [[capital cost]] of a [[semiconductor fabrication plant]] also increases exponentially over time.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.edavision.com/200111/feature.pdf |publisher=EDA Vision |title=Does Moore's Law Still Hold Up? |first=Jeff |last=Dorsch |access-date=2011-08-22 |archive-date=2006-05-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060506114410/http://www.edavision.com/200111/feature.pdf |url-status=usurped }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://research.microsoft.com/~gray/Moore_Law.html |title=The Origin, Nature, and Implications of 'Moore's Law' | first = Bob | last = Schaller |publisher=Research.microsoft.com |date=1996-09-26 |access-date=2011-08-22}}</ref>