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In 1965, Gordon
Moore, then research director for Fairchild Semiconductor was asked to
comment about the future of this new gadget called integrated circuits,
invented in 1959 by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce. They wanted him to comment on whether or not this new
technology has a future. As any good
research director will do, he sit down and look to the history as a predictor
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He noticed that
the first 8 transistor chip appears in 1962,<click>. The first 16 transistor chip appears in
1963, <click> the first 32 transistor chip appears in 1964. Staring at one of his own chips in 1965
which has 64 transistors, Moore boldly predicted that number of transistors
on an integrated circuit will double every year.
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So that’s the
prophecy known as Moore’s Law.
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In 1968, Moore
and Noyce left Fairchild to found this tiny startup company called Intel.
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