FAQ: Forty years of Moore’s Law
The article outlined what became known as Moore’s Law, the observation that the number of transistors–tiny on/off switches that churn out electrical signals that get represented as 1s and 0s–on a chip can be doubled in a short period of time. Adopted as a yardstick by the tech industry, the concept is one of the reasons the industry evolved into a high-growth, but high-risk, affair.
