From TechRepublic:
“Gordon Moore’s famous law has been around for four decades. Not bad for an idea he thought wouldn’t last.
Forty years ago, Electronics Magazine asked Intel co-founder Gordon Moore to write an article summarizing the state of the electronics industry.
The article outlined what became known as Moore’s Law, the observation that the number of transistors–tiny on/off switches that churn out electrical signals that get represented as 1s and 0s–on a chip can be doubled in a short period of time. Adopted as a yardstick by the tech industry, the concept is one of the reasons the industry evolved into a high-growth, but high-risk, affair.”