Answer each questions in at least 100 words.
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What is Moore’s Law? What does it apply to?
How does flash memory differ from the memory in a PC? Are both solid state?
Why is Moore’s Law important for managers? How does it influence managerial thinking?
What is price elasticity? How does Moore’s Law relate to this concept? What’s special about falling chip prices compared to price drops for products like clothing or food?
How did Amazon utilize the steep decline in magnetic storage costs to its advantage?
As chips grow smaller they generate increasing amounts of heat that needs to be dissipated
Why keeping systems cool such a challenge? What are the implications for a firm like Yahoo! or Google? For a firm like Apple or Dell?
Many well-meaning individuals thought that recycling was the answer to the e-waste problem. But why hasn’t e-waste recycling yielded the results hoped for?
How does grid computing using slack or excess computing resources change the economics of supercomputing?
What is the difference between supercomputing, grid computing, cluster computing? How are these phenomena empowered by Moore’s Law?
What lessons do the challenges of e-waste offer the manager? What issues will your firm need to consider as it consumes or offers products that contain computing components?