Moore's Law 40th Anniversary

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'The first microprocessor only had 22 hundred transistors. We are looking at something a million times that complex in the next generations - a billion transistors. What that gives us in the way of flexibility to design products is phenomenal.'



Gordon E. Moore



In 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore saw the future. His prediction, popularly known as Moore's Law, states that the number of transistors on a chip doubles about every two years. This observation about silicon integration, made a reality by Intel, has fueled the worldwide technology revolution. "