Moore's Law

In 1965, Gordon Moore observed that the number of transistors on a chip doubled approximately every two years — while the cost halved. He published it as a prediction. The industry treated it as a law.

For over 50 years, Moore’s Law held. It drove the exponential growth of computing power that put supercomputers in our pockets.

“The complexity for minimum component costs has increased at a rate of roughly a factor of two per year.” — Gordon Moore, 1965

Today Moore’s Law is slowing. But the mindset it created — that progress is exponential — still shapes how we build.