Moore’s Law is the observation and prediction that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. Named from a 1965 article by the co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor, Gordon Moore, it’s more of an observation than a law, though one that has both guided and driven the exponential growth in semiconductor capacity ever since it was coined.
It’s been a baseline belief behind massive amounts of tech investment over the last decades and has helped facilitate not just technological innovation but economic and social change. While this law doesn’t technically hold true anymore, the rapid growth in semiconductor capacity continues.
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