Moore's Law says the number of integrated circuit chips in a computer doubles every two years, implying computers become twice as powerful every two years. According to Moore's Law, how many years from now will computers be 32 times more powerful than they are now?

Being thirty-two times more powerful means five doublings, since two to the fifth equals thirty-two.

Each doubling spans two years under Moore's Law, so five doublings take ten years.

Five years give only two and a half doublings, well below a thirty-two-fold rise.

Twelve years would allow six doublings, reaching sixty-four times, more than needed.

Eight years cover four doublings, sixteen-fold, still short of thirty-two.

Gordon Moore first observed this doubling of transistor counts, later stated as roughly every two years.