Moore’s & Eroom’s Law

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In 1965, a relatively young Gordon Moore penned his now legendary paper with the scholarly title.. " Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits " That paper, by the future Intel co-founder, is widely celebrated as the original inspiration for Moore's Law, which states roughly that the number of transistors that can be installed on an integrated circuit doubles every two years. His breakthrough observation became a sort of guiding principle for the still very young computer industry. During the next 30 years, it was often difficult to tell if chip and computer manufacturers were proving Moore's theory, or following it like some kind of law.

Moore's Law transformed computing through decreased costs, but Eroom’s Law  ( “Moore” spelled backwards ) is the opposite:

Much of the costs in bio (drugs etc.) have been exponentially increasing in cost. So where do the two meet? And what are the possibilities that come from applying cheaper faster computation to the extraordinary rising costs of healthcare?

We can look at how chemists and physicists want to use quantum computers, a new kind of machine that they hope can simulate and even predict molecules valuable for catalysis, materials science, and drug discovery.

Nevertheless, R&D costs of the pharmaceutical industry which..

increased nearly 100 fold between 1950 and 2010

Nathan Wiebe is researcher at Microsoft who explains Quantum simulations and where we are right now.

I of III:  difference between the two laws:

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II of III:  How will quantum computers change chemistry

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III of III : Costing quantum computer simulations of chemistry

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