News Summary

• In April 1965, Intel co-founder Gordon Moore published a groundbreaking article detailing what he theorized would result in an exponential increase in the speed, power, and capability of computers in decades to come.
• Moore’s Law has been the subject of intense debate in the intervening decades since his landmark article.
• By the turn of the millennium, the number of transistors on an individual chip increased more than 18,000 times, skyrocketing from 2,300 in 1971 to 42 million on a top-of-the-range Pentium 4 processor.