4 Digital Laws

We studied the 4 Digital Laws in one of our courses last semester These are:

1. Kryder's Law: The storage capacity doubles every twelve months

   --Ever increasing memory capacities in magnetic hard drives, solid state drives and pen drives is testament to this law.

2. Moore's Law: Transistor count in microprocessors will double every 18 months to 2 years.

 --Faster microprocessors have been coming out in the market since Gordon Moore developed this law at Intel.

3. Nielsen's Law: Data transfer bandwidth doubles every twenty-one months.

    --Faster bandwidths have now pushed us into optical interconnects.

4. The Caveman Law: Whenever there is a conflict between modern technology and the desires or our primitive ancestors, these primitive desires win each time (Michio Kaku). Steve Jobs loved this law. Here is the reference article for this: Link

These laws remain the drivers of technology today. From big data to cloud computing and smart phones, these are at the heart of the technologies we see today. The increasing applications of information technology we see today are possible because of these fundamental advances. 

In India, IT remains the primary growth driver along with agriculture. Considering these laws to be the backbone of IT, should we spending more time, effort and resources on developing technologies at the fundamental level of these laws such as better memories, faster processors and photonic systems? As it stands today, India imports a bulk of these technologies from memories to processors and optical fibre communication systems.

With the Make In India initiative of the Government of India, I think it is the right time to be investing more in these fundamental technologies that drive the IT industry.

References on the current state of the industry:

Semiconductors and IC design industry in India

http://linkis.com/wordpress.com/fmCcD

Government plans $10 billion investment in 2 semiconductor plants: http://linkis.com/www.livemint.com/Ind/f90od Can India build the next Silicon Valley? http://linkis.com/e27.co/gd4MP Why a Made In India chip remains a chimeric? http://linkis.com/www.livemint.com/Hom/w7vpf