![]() Not only will the processing power of computer chips grow exponentially, but the cost per transistor will also decline exponentially. As the number of transistors increases, the cost per transistor falls.As the number of transistors increases, so does processing power.The number of transistors in a computer chip doubles roughly every two years. ![]() He believed that as computing power increased, the cost per component would also decrease, eventually making new technologies not only possible but affordable. Moore, the company’s Research and Development Director, realized that with these new integrated circuits (with multiple transistors interconnected with aluminum metal lines on a tiny square of the silicon wafer), “the cost per component is nearly inversely proportional to the number of components”. In 1961, the patent office awarded the first patent for an integrated circuit to Robert Noyce at Fairchild Semiconductor. Although this prediction would go on to be called a “law”, it is based on empirical observations and cannot be proven scientifically. When it proved correct in 1975, he revised based on new data what has become known as ‘Moore’s Law’ to the doubling of transistors on a chip every two years. ![]() Gordon Moore was working at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1965 when he made an observation due to the invention of the integrated circuit and the shrinking size of transistors: the number of transistors on the microchip doubles every year. ![]()
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