It's Moore's Law, but Another Had the Idea First

by John Markoff New York Times, 18 Apr 2005 Forty years ago, Electronics magazine published Gordon E. Moore's celebrated article predicting that the number of transistors that could be placed on a silicon chip would continue to double at regular intervals for the foreseeable future. Named Moore's Law several years later by the physicist Carver Mead, that simple observation has proven to be the bulwark of the world's most remarkable industry. Yet Mr. Moore was not the only one -- or even the first -- to observe the so-called scaling effect that has led to the exponential acceleration of computing power that is now expected to continue at least for the next decade. Read the article