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Integrated-circuit era (1959-1975)
Gordon Moore
1929-2023
Formulated Moore's Law in Electronics magazine on April 19, 1965.
Contributions
- 01Observed that transistor count was doubling yearly (later revised to roughly every two years).
- 02Co-founded Intel in July 1968.
- 03The law became a self-fulfilling roadmap for the industry.
Why it matters for moore's law
Moore's Law gave the industry a target to plan against. Every datacenter capex plan ever drawn assumes scaling continues at the implied pace.