Gordon_Moore_1965_Article

Gordon_Moore_1965_Article
The experts look ahead




Cramming more components
onto integrated circuits
With unit cost falling as the number of components per
circuit rises, by 1975 economics may dictate squeezing as
many as 65,000 components on a single silicon chip


By Gordon E. Moore
Director, Research and Development Laboratories, Fairchild Semiconductor
division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp.




The future of integrated electronics is the future of electron- machine instead of being concentrated in a central unit. In
ics itself. The advantages of integration will bring about a addition, the improved reliability made possible by integrated
proliferation of electronics, pushing this science into many circuits will allow the construction of larger processing units.
new areas.