40th Anniversary of Moore's Law; The Prediction that Drives an Industry; Graphic Available on Business Wire's Web Site and AP PhotoExpress.In 1965, Gordon Moore Gordon Earle Moore (b. January 3, 1929 in San Francisco, California) is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's Law (published in an article 19 April 1965 in Electronics Magazine). drew a sketch as part of writing an article for Electronics Magazine titled "Cramming The unauthorized addition of services to your telephone bill such as an 800 number that you never ordered. The charges are usually noted on the bill, but are identified in a cryptic manner and/or are printed in a place that is easy to overlook. See slamming. More Components Onto Integrated Circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. " the sketch illustrates the prediction that the cost of manufacturing transistors would go down every year and that the number of transistors would double every year starting with 30. In 1975, he revised his prediction to every two years. Forty years later we're up to 1.7 billion transistors on a chip with no sign of slowing down. |
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