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Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits
- Year
- 1965
- Creator
- Gordon Moore
- Company
- Fairchild Semiconductor; published in Electronics magazine
- Location
Description
Gordon Moore of Fairchild wrote this article for the April 19, 1965 issue of Electronics magazine, whose cover is shown. In it, he plotted the number of components on the most economical chip and projected the curve 10 years ahead.
Importance
Moore forecast that the count would double each year and reach 65,000 components per chip by 1975. In 1975, Moore, then at Intel, changed his estimate to a doubling every two years. After Carver Mead named it Moore's Law, the chip industry used the forecast as a target for its technical progress.
Interesting fact
Moore based his 10-year forecast on only five data points, from chips made between 1959 and 1964.
Sources
- 1965: Moore's Law Predicts the Future of Integrated Circuits ↗Computer History Museum, The Silicon Engine
- Milestones: Moore's Law, 1965 ↗IEEE, Engineering and Technology History Wiki · 2018-08-15