Moore’s law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years. It is an observation and projection of a historical trend. It is an empirical relationship linked to gains from experience in production. The observation is named after Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel (and former CEO of the latter), who in 1965 posited a doubling […]

Moore’s law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years. It is an observation and projection of a historical trend. It is an empirical relationship linked to gains from experience in production.The observation is named after Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel (and former CEO of the latter), who in 1965 posited a doubling every year in the number of components per integrated circuit.As interesting as the meaning of Moore’s Law is its validity. The outcome of Moore’s Law was that performance would double every 24 months or about 40% annually. CPU performance improvements have now slowed to roughly 30% annually, so technically speaking, Moore’s Law is dead.