In 1965, Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, was preparing a speech and made a memorable observation. When he started to graph data about the growth in memory chip performance, he realised there was a striking trend. Each new chip contained roughly twice as much capacity as its predecessor, and each chip was released within 18-24 months of the previous chip.
Moore’s observation, now known as Moore’s Law, described a trend that has continued and is still remarkably accurate. In 26 years the number of transistors on a chip has increased more than 3,200 times -Êfrom 2,300 on the old 4004 chip in 1971 to 7.5 million on the Pentium II processor.
Further information on Moore’s Law can be found from the Intel Web site at: http:// www.intel.com