"**All of these advances have one fundamental technical foundation: our ability to emplace more components on an integrated circuit** whose progress—doubling roughly every two years—has been, so far, conforming to the prediction made by [[Gordon Moore]], at that time [[Fairchild Semiconductor]]’s director of research, in 1965." ([Location 2522](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B08SGC3TD3&location=2522)) --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[moore's-law]], [[transistors]], [[innovation]], [[semiconductors]], [[microprocessors]] **Source** -- [[202412030828 - B - How the World Really Works]]