Editing Gordon Moore (section)

===Moore's law===
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In 1965, Moore was working as the director of research and development (R&D) at Fairchild Semiconductor. He was asked by [[Electronics (magazine)|Electronics Magazine]] to predict what he thought might happen in the semiconductor components industry over the next ten years. In an article published on April 19, 1965, Moore observed that the number of components (transistors, resistors, diodes, or capacitors)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lithoguru.com/scientist/CHE323/Moore1995.pdf|title=Lithography and the future of Moore's law|publisher=[[SPIE]]|author=Gordon E. Moore|year=1995|access-date=January 2, 2015| archive-date=December 15, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171215145122/http://www.lithoguru.com/scientist/CHE323/Moore1995.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> in a dense integrated circuit had doubled approximately every year and speculated that it would continue to do so for at least the next ten years. In 1975, he revised the forecast rate to approximately every two years.<ref>{{Cite journal|doi=10.5210/fm.v7i11.1000|title=The Lives and Death of Moore's Law|journal=First Monday|volume=7|issue=11|year=2002|last=Tuomi|first=I. |doi-access=free }}</ref> [[Carver Mead]] popularized the phrase "Moore's law". The prediction has become a target for [[miniaturization]] in the semiconductor industry and has had widespread impact in many areas of technological change.<ref name=MooresLaw1965/><ref name=BrockBook>{{cite book|editor-last1=Brock|editor-first1=David C.| title=Understanding Moore's law : four decades of innovation| date=2006| publisher=Chemical Heritage Press| isbn=9780941901413}}</ref>