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19/04/1965 Electronics magazine publishes an article on the future of semiconductor components

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Our Stories - Gordon Moore about Moore's Law

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Moore's Law: A Romanticized Tribute

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Industry Analysts on the 50th Anniversary of Moore’s Law

Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. The observation is named after Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, whose 1965 paper described a doubling every year in the number of components per integrated circuit.
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