Gordon Moore retired yesterday from the board of directors at Intel, the company he co-founded more than 30 years ago. He is a Silicon Valley giant.
He’s best known for his 1965 prediction in this paper (PDF file, 168k), which has since become known as Moore’s Law, that transistor density on a given area of silicon would double and redouble every year. (He revised that to two years in 1975.)
It means smaller, faster, cheaper, as I explain in my Friday column.