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Rock's Law can be seen as the economic flipside to Moore's Law ; the latter is a direct consequence of the ongoing growth of the capital-intensive semiconductor industry—innovative and popular products mean more profits, meaning more capital available to invest in ever higher levels of Large-scale Integration , which in turn leads to creation of even more innovative products. The semiconductor industry has always been extremely capital-intensive, with very low unit manufacturing costs. Thus, the ultimate Limits To Growth of the industry will constrain the maximum amount of capital that can be invested in new products; at some point, Rock's Law will collide with Moore's Law. It has been suggested that Rock's Law is false, in that fabrication plants costs have not increased as quickly as predicted. Rock's Law Fails to Hold Also that perhaps more relevant as a constraint on Moore's Law is the fabrication plant cost ''per transistor'', which has shown a pronounced downward trend. EXTERNAL LINKS
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