Happy 50th birthday, Moore's Law
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Fifty years ago yesterday, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore published a paper titled "Cramming More Electronics onto Integrated Circuits," in the magazine Electronics. That article contained Moore's now-famous observation that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit could be expected to double every year, which every tech enthusiast now knows as Moore's Law.
Though Moore later revised his original forecast to a doubling once every two years, the "wild extrapolation," as ...