In 1959, Douglas Engelbart studied the projected downscaling of integrated circuit (IC) size, publishing his … See more

Numerous innovations by scientists and engineers have sustained Moore's law since the beginning of the IC era. Some of the key innovations are listed below, as examples of breakthroughs that have advanced i… See more

In April 2005, Gordon Moore stated in an interview that the projection cannot be sustained indefinitely: "It can't continue forever. The nature of exponentials is that you push them out and eventually disaster happens." … See more

Digital electronics have contributed to world economic growth in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. The primary driving force of economic growth is the growth of productivity, which Moore's law factors into… See more

Several measures of digital technology are improving at exponential rates related to Moore's law, including the size, cost, density, and speed of components. Moore wrote only about the density of component… See more

• Accelerating change – Perceived increase in the rate of technological change throughout history
• Beyond CMOS – Possible future digital logic technologies
• Ephemeralization – Technological advanceme… See more