Gordon Moore

Moore, Gordon E. Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits. Available from . 

Hwang G S, Anderson C M, Gordon M J, Moore T A, Minton T K and Glapis K P 1996 Gas-surface dynamics and profile evolution during etching of silicon Phys. Rev. Lett. 77 3049-51... 

Failures are not something to be avoided. You want them to happen as quickly as you can so you can make progress rapidly —Gordon Moore... 

For the past 30 years, the semiconductor industry has followed Moore s law, which states that transistor performance and density double every 3 years (1). Although not truly a law, Gordon Moore s statement has yet to be violated. But now it seems to be in serious danger. Fundamental thermodjmamic limits are being reached in critical areas, and unless new. 

Rajeshwar, K. Roozeboom, F. 2007. Gordon Moore and his legacy four decades and counting. Electrochem. Soc. Interface Spring ll-14. 

Kenneth A. Pickar, California Institute of Technology Let me just throw another stone on this one, too. Gordon Moore, who predicted that data density would double every 18 months, would be the first to tell you it was not a stroke of genius on his part. Things like the road map are a self-fulfilling prophecy. Creativity may have been stifled, but maybe if you look at how the business has expanded, it s hard to see how it could have been done any better. 

In 1965, Gordon. E. Moore, one of the co-founders of Intel, observed that the number of transistors per square inch on an integrated circuit had doubled since the integrated circuit was first produced. From his initial observations, Moore then went on to predict that every 18 months the complexity of an integrated circuit (generally taken to be proportional to the number of transistors) would double. 

When Moore s Law hits the solid-state fabrication brick wall, researchers in the held of molecular electronics want to be there to pick up the pieces, using self-assembly as one of the tools. Of course, Gordon Moore, one of the founders of Intel, did not actually posit a Law, he made a prediction that the number of components crammed onto integrated circuits would double every year.1 This prediction was later modified to a doubling every 18 months, and has held true long past the 1975 end date Moore originally used, an accuracy that convinced industry pundits to refer to his prediction as a Law. 

This trend conforms to a pattern foreseen in 1965 by Gordon Moore (1929- ), cofounder of the Intel Corporation. Moore predicted that the number of circuits on a silicon chip would double every year, a projection he later changed to a doubling every 18 to 24 months. Progress in chip design has followed Moore s Law with remarkable accuracy ever since. If that law continues to hold true, one can expect processors with a billion transistors per chip sometime before the year 2015. 

Moore NP, Menkir GM, Markevitch AN, Graham P, Levis RJ (2002) In Bandrauk AD, Fujimura Y, Gordon RJ (eds) Laser control and manipulation of molecules. American Chemical Soc., Washington DC, pp 207-220... 

Moore, C.B. 1971. Phosphorus. Pp.131-135 in Handbook of Elemental Abundances in Meteorites (B. Mason, ed.). Gordon and Breach, New York. 

Flood A, Girling RB, Gordon KC, Hester RE, Moore JN, Poison MIJ (2002) J Raman... 

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