Moore's law is the observation that the number of
transistors in a dense
integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years. The observation is named after
Gordon E. Moore, the co-founder of
Intel and
Fairchild Semiconductor, whose 1965 paper described a
doubling every year in the number of components per integrated circuit, and projected this rate of growth would continue for at least another decade. In 1975, looking forward to the next decade, he revised the forecast to doubling every two years.