Quote of the day by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore: 'The number of transistors incorporated in a chip will approximately double every 24 months' — laying down a prophecy for decades of computing acceleration
The computing industry owes a lot to the guiding vision of Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, whose prediction about the pace of advancement in the computing industry has been a fixture for more than 50 years. But how much room does this rule have left to run?
Moore's Law
Moore, who was the president of Intel at the time, delivered his famous prediction – known as Moore's Law – at the 1975 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting, according to the Computer History Museum.
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This prediction, however, wasn't his first. A decade before, Moore authored an article titled 'Cramming more components onto integrated circuits' in which...
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