Thursday, July 19, 2018

On its 50th anniversary, Intel is forced to do less with Moore

Intel turns 50 today, marking a major landmark for the processor company that has, perhaps more than any other company, become synonymous with the chips that are the beating hearts of the electronic devices we use today. Anyone familiar with Intel should be aware of Moore’s Law, which served as the underlying philosophy that has driven the chip company for the last half-century.

Written by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, Moore’s Law is commonly quoted as saying that every two years, the number of transistors that could fit on a microchip would double. But in Moore’s original paper that was published in Electronics magazine, his prediction was actually that transistor count would double approximately every year for the 10-year period from...

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