Cramming more components onto integrated circuits

The work

AuthorsGordon E. Moore
Editors
Typearticle
Year1965
Citekeymoore1965cramming

Where it appeared

Published inElectronics
Volume38
Issue8
Pages114--117

Related

Distinct frommoore1995lithography Moore restating his own law thirty years on, with lithography as the binding constraint rather than the cost-per-component argument of 1965.

Abstract

With unit cost falling as the number of components per circuit rises, by 1975 economics may dictate squeezing as many as 65,000 components on a single silicon chip.

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@article{moore1965cramming,
  title        = {Cramming more components onto integrated circuits},
  author       = {Gordon E. Moore},
  year         = {1965},
  journal      = {Electronics},
  volume       = {38},
  number       = {8},
  pages        = {114--117},
}

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