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CS269: HW/SW Engineering of Embedded Systems, Winter02
The World According to Moore
4004
2,250 trans
1971
8008
2,500 trans
1972
8080
5,000 trans
1974
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“Cramming More Components
Onto Integrated Circuits”,
Electronics, April, 1965
•1959, invention of IC (Kilby/Noyce)
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•Moore’s Law
–Number of transistors shall double every years
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In 1975,  acknowledging the increasing difficulty in chip manufacturing, and seeing his prediction coming up short, Moore revised his prediction to doubling every two years.