I'm a bit mystified by all the downvotes, am I mistaken in understanding that Moore's law can be understood in a generalized context with respect to the rate not the quantity the rate was originally measured from? Basically he observed a particular rate constant or exponential growth profile. The quoted wiki page states: "Several measures of digital technology are improving at exponential rates related to Moore's law, including the size, cost, density, and speed of components. Moore wrote only about the density of components, "a component being a transistor, resistor, diode or capacitor,"[102] at minimum cost."". So essentially when comparing the growth of one quantity vs another it's not the quantities that are being compared but the rates.