Security News > 2023 > March > In Memoriam – Gordon Moore, who put the more in “Moore’s Law”

Apparently, Moore and Noyce toyed with the precise but unadventurous company name Moore Noyce, but soon realised that when said aloud, it was easily confused with "More noise", an undesirable attribute in electronic circuits.

Looking ahead 10 years, Moore therefore conjectured that by 1975, we might reasonably expect chips with 216 components baked into them - an astonishing acceleration in potential computer power.

Intel's own 8086 microprocessor, for example, released in 1978, had a transistor count of just under 30,000, close to 215, but Moore's original prediction was for chips to accommodate 219 components by then, or more than half a million.

The M2 arrived 44 years after the 8086, which is time for 22 two-year doublings, as Moore's Revised Law of 1975 would predict.

His words were hailed as a Law, though in truth it was as much as case of The Moore Effect - a challenge as much as a calculation; a proposal as much as a prediction; an exhortation as much as an estimate.

Gordon Earle Moore, RIP. Picture of Gordon Moore in featured image from a memorial collection provided courtesy of Intel Corporation.

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