50 Years On, Moore’s Law Still Pushes Tech to Double Down
On April 19, 1965, the 36-year-old head of R&D at seminal Silicon Valley firm Fairchild Semiconductor published a prediction in a trade magazine, “Electronics.” The researcher claimed that the number of components — that is, transistors — on a single computer chip would continue to double every year, while the cost per chip would remain constant.

April 20, 2015 at 04:15AM
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