An Update on Moore's Law

Abstract

Good morning again. I trust yesterday was useful for you, especially considering that we have two more days of it. This morning, we have Gordon Moore to come speak with us, and I've had a lot of questions in the last couple years about how did he come up with this thing called Moore's Law? And I happen to be privy to the insight of how this really happened. You see, Gordon is a deep sea fisherman, he loves to go fishing, and early back in 1965 or so, he was out fishing one day, and he was musing on the fact that he had noticed over the last year or so that he was actually able to get a couple more transistors on that die. And he thought, "Hmm, I wonder how often these things are actually going to double in terms of the number of transistors I can get on the chip." And he thought, "I know; however many fish I catch today; that's how many years it's going to be." He got 18 fish; it was 18 months. Without further ado, let's bring on Gordon Moore.