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MOORE'S LAW
In 1965, in what came to be known as Moore's Law, Gordon Moore, a founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and later of Intel, quantified the rate at which microchips would increase in power. Based on his calculation of the rate at which the technology was advancing, Moore predicted that over the next ten years the number of components that could be fitted on a microchip would continue to double every twelve months.