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Cramming more components onto integrated circuits

Subtitle: "With unit cost falling as the number of components per circuit rises, by 1975 economics may dictate squeezing as many as 65,000 components on a single silicon chip." By Gordon E. Moore, Director, Research and Development Laboratories, Fairchild Semiconductor division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. This is the original magazine article that led to the hypthesis that today is called "Moore's Law." From: Electronics, Volume 38, Number 8, April 19, 1965. 4 scanned pages.

Item Details

Date
1965-04-19 (Made)
Type
Document
Catalogue number
102770822
Other identifying number
doc-45f1baa60a8c8 (OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER)
Organization
Electronics (Publisher)
People
Gordon E. Moore (Author)
Category
Article
Credit line
Gift of Computer History Museum
Extent
4 p.
Language
English
Acquisition number
X7847.2017
Archive collection
Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection
Archive hierarchy
Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection