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drumbeat

English translation: regular rhythm

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English term or phrase:drumbeat
Selected answer:regular rhythm
Entered by: Charles Davis

16:18 Oct 2, 2015
English language (monolingual) [Non-PRO]
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English term or phrase: drumbeat
Доброго времени суток.

When you think about Intel and other companies like that, over the last forty plus years they've been on this drumbeat of doubling the number of transistors on its semiconductor.

Do I understand correctly that "drumbeat" here is similar to "bragging about"?

Thank you.
Mikhail Korolev
Local time: 01:02
regular rhythm
Explanation:
"Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. The observation is named after Gordon E. Moore, the co-founder of Intel and Fairchild Semiconductor, whose 1965 paper described a doubling every year in the number of components per integrated circuit."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

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Note added at 11 mins (2015-10-02 16:29:50 GMT)
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"Drumbeat" could imply promoting an idea, or talking about it insistently, to the point of monotony, but the idea expressed in Moore's Law, which I've quoted, of an ongoing regular interval in the doubling of components, is so well known and so much associated with Intel that I think it must be the idea here, or at least the main idea.
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Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 00:02
Grading comment
Many thanks to everyone.

Thank you, Charles.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



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4 +5regular rhythm
Charles Davis
4shared rhythm / keeping in step
B D Finch


Discussion entries: 2





  

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7 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
regular rhythm


Explanation:
"Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. The observation is named after Gordon E. Moore, the co-founder of Intel and Fairchild Semiconductor, whose 1965 paper described a doubling every year in the number of components per integrated circuit."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore's_law

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Note added at 11 mins (2015-10-02 16:29:50 GMT)
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"Drumbeat" could imply promoting an idea, or talking about it insistently, to the point of monotony, but the idea expressed in Moore's Law, which I've quoted, of an ongoing regular interval in the doubling of components, is so well known and so much associated with Intel that I think it must be the idea here, or at least the main idea.

Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 00:02
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 572
Grading comment
Many thanks to everyone.

Thank you, Charles.
Notes to answerer
Asker: Oh, now I understand the meaning. Thank you, Charles.


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Jack Doughty
13 mins
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agree  Alice Yang (X)
3 hrs
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agree  jccantrell
7 hrs
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agree  Terry Richards
16 hrs
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agree  Phong Le
4 days
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18 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
shared rhythm / keeping in step


Explanation:
I think that the phrase "and other companies like that" is important here and that one needs to take the whole phrase "on this drumbeat", not just "drumbeat" on its own. I understand this as a military parade ground type of drumbeat that keeps everybody marching in step without having to think about it. So Intel and the other companies have, for 40 years, been doubling the number of transistors without examining whether this is the best thing to do.

B D Finch
France
Local time: 00:02
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 192
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