Moore's Law: The First Ten Years
In short: In 1965 Gordon Moore projected 65,000 components per chip by 1975. Ten years later the chip on his own chart held about half that, which was right in scale and a factor of 2 short in number, and he then slowed his forecast to a doubling every two years.
A 2:13 short film in the series “Moore's Law”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: Harvard Business School Online, “What Is Moore's Law? Examples from the Semiconductor Industry”; Encyclopaedia Britannica (Britannica Editors; revised and updated by Erik Gregersen), “Moore’s law | Microprocessors, Transistors & Technology | Britannica”; IEEE (IEEE Technology Navigator), “Moore's Law | IEEE Technology Navigator”; Science History Institute, “Gordon E. Moore”; Computer History Museum (hosting Gordon E. Moore's 1965 article from Electronics magazine), “moores paper”; Computer History Museum (The Silicon Engine exhibit), “1965: "Moore's Law" Predicts the Future of Integrated Circuits | The Silicon Engine”; IEEE Spectrum (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), feature by David Lammers, 30 April 2015, “Moore’s Law Milestones”; Computer History Museum (CHM blog, David A. Laws, Semiconductor Curator, January 18, 2019), “Madeleine Moment Connects Moore’s Law Artifacts”; Computer History Museum, “Photograph of chips representing the increase in bipolar integrated circuit complexity - 102740485 - CHM”; IEEE (Gordon E. Moore, 'Progress in Digital Integrated Electronics', IEDM Technical Digest 1975; Intel reprint hosted by Auburn University), “Gordon_Moore_1975_Speech.indd”; IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC 2003 Digest of Technical Papers), Gordon E. Moore's plenary paper, hosted as course slides by UC San Diego CSE, “No exponential is forever: but "forever" can be delayed! - Solid-State C ircuits Conference, 2003. Digest of Technical Papers. ISSCC. 2003 IEEE I nternational”; Proceedings of the IEEE (1998 reprint of Gordon E. Moore's April 19, 1965 article in Electronics), hosted by the University of Texas at Austin Computer Science department, “Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits - Proceedings of the IEEE”; IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing (Chris A. Mack, 'Fifty Years of Moore's Law', Vol. 24, No. 2, May 2011), copy hosted by the USPTO, “D:\IEEE_FINAL\Paginated-pdf-Finalfiles\TSM\24tsm02-paginated-pdfs\tsm-mack-2096437\tsm-mack-2096437-proof.dvi”; IEEE Computer Society (Computer magazine, December 2013; Andrew A. Chien and Vijay Karamcheti), via NSF Public Access Repository, “10066867”.
Sources used in this film
- Harvard Business School Online — What Is Moore's Law? Examples from the Semiconductor Industry · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (Britannica Editors; revised and updated by Erik Gregersen) — Moore’s law | Microprocessors, Transistors & Technology | Britannica · View →
- IEEE (IEEE Technology Navigator) — Moore's Law | IEEE Technology Navigator · View →
- Science History Institute — Gordon E. Moore · View →
- Computer History Museum (hosting Gordon E. Moore's 1965 article from Electronics magazine) — moores paper · View →
- Computer History Museum (The Silicon Engine exhibit) — 1965: "Moore's Law" Predicts the Future of Integrated Circuits | The Silicon Engine · View →
- IEEE Spectrum (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), feature by David Lammers, 30 April 2015 — Moore’s Law Milestones · View →
- Computer History Museum (CHM blog, David A. Laws, Semiconductor Curator, January 18, 2019) — Madeleine Moment Connects Moore’s Law Artifacts · View →
- Computer History Museum — Photograph of chips representing the increase in bipolar integrated circuit complexity - 102740485 - CHM · View →
- IEEE (Gordon E. Moore, 'Progress in Digital Integrated Electronics', IEDM Technical Digest 1975; Intel reprint hosted by Auburn University) — Gordon_Moore_1975_Speech.indd · View →
- IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC 2003 Digest of Technical Papers), Gordon E. Moore's plenary paper, hosted as course slides by UC San Diego CSE — No exponential is forever: but "forever" can be delayed! - Solid-State C ircuits Conference, 2003. Digest of Technical Papers. ISSCC. 2003 IEEE I nternational · View →
- Proceedings of the IEEE (1998 reprint of Gordon E. Moore's April 19, 1965 article in Electronics), hosted by the University of Texas at Austin Computer Science department — Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits - Proceedings of the IEEE · View →
- IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing (Chris A. Mack, 'Fifty Years of Moore's Law', Vol. 24, No. 2, May 2011), copy hosted by the USPTO — D:\IEEE_FINAL\Paginated-pdf-Finalfiles\TSM\24tsm02-paginated-pdfs\tsm-mack-2096437\tsm-mack-2096437-proof.dvi · View →
- IEEE Computer Society (Computer magazine, December 2013; Andrew A. Chien and Vijay Karamcheti), via NSF Public Access Repository — 10066867 · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: Harvard Business School Online: What Is Moore's Law? Examples from the Semiconductor Industry
- Also: Encyclopaedia Britannica (Britannica Editors; revised and updated by Erik Gregersen): Moore’s law | Microprocessors, Transistors & Technology | Britannica
- Also: IEEE (IEEE Technology Navigator): Moore's Law | IEEE Technology Navigator
- Also: Science History Institute: Gordon E. Moore
- Also: Computer History Museum (hosting a reproduction of Gordon E. Moore's article in Electronics magazine, April 19, 1965): moores paper
- Also: Computer History Museum (The Silicon Engine exhibit): 1965: "Moore's Law" Predicts the Future of Integrated Circuits | The Silicon Engine
- Also: IEEE Spectrum (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), feature by David Lammers, 30 April 2015: Moore’s Law Milestones
- Also: Computer History Museum (CHM blog, David A. Laws, Semiconductor Curator, January 18, 2019): Madeleine Moment Connects Moore’s Law Artifacts
- Also: Computer History Museum: Photograph of chips representing the increase in bipolar integrated circuit complexity - 102740485 - CHM
- Also: IEEE (Gordon E. Moore, 'Progress in Digital Integrated Electronics', IEDM Technical Digest 1975; Intel reprint hosted by: Gordon_Moore_1975_Speech.indd
- Also: IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC 2003): plenary paper by Gordon E. Moore, Intel Corporation, ho: No exponential is forever: but "forever" can be delayed! - Solid-State C ircuits Conference, 2003. Digest of Technical Papers. ISSCC. 2003 IEEE I nternational
- Also: Proceedings of the IEEE (1998 reprint of Gordon E. Moore's April 19, 1965 article in Electronics), hosted by the Univers: Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits - Proceedings of the IEEE
- Also: IEEE Transactions on Semiconductor Manufacturing (Chris A. Mack, 'Fifty Years of Moore's Law', Vol. 24, No. 2, May 2011): D:\IEEE_FINAL\Paginated-pdf-Finalfiles\TSM\24tsm02-paginated-pdfs\tsm-mack-2096437\tsm-mack-2096437-proof.dvi
- Also: IEEE Computer Society (Computer magazine, December 2013; Andrew A. Chien and Vijay Karamcheti), via NSF Public Access Re: 10066867
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