Moore's law

Moore's law is the empirical observation that at our rate of technological development, the complexity of an integrated circuit, with respect to minimum component cost will double in about 24 months.

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Empirical - Integrated circuit

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It is attributed to Gordon E. Moore{{ref|otherGEMoore}}, a co-founder of Intel. However, Moore had heard Douglas Engelbart's similar observation possibly in 1960. Engelbart, a co-inventor of today's mechanical computer mouse, believed that the ongoing improvement of integrated circuits would eventually make interactive computing feasible.

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Gordon E. Moore - Intel - Douglas Engelbart - 1960 - Inventor - Computer mouse - Interactive computing

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