then Intel CEO, Gordon Moore. In his original paper, he predicted a doubling of the number of components per integrated circuit every year, which he then revised, in 1975, to every two years. In the same year, Moore’s colleague, Intel executive David House, noted that Moore’s revised law of doubling transistor count every two years in turn implied that computer chip performance would roughly double every eighteen months. This prediction, that a doubling of the processing power would come with no increase in power consumption or cost, has held true, almost like a law of nature, ever since.
