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Revolutions take many forms, but there are very few like the one in electronics, where academia and industry converge. Fairchild Semiconductor, founded by the "traitorous eight" who left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, helped establish Silicon Valley. Among them, Gordon Moore made a pivotal observation in 1965: the number of components per integrated circuit was doubling annually, later revised to every two years—now known as Moore's Law.
Moore's Law has held true, as illustrated by SK Ventures: if cars had advanced like computers, they'd have 600 million horsepower, go 0-60 in under 0.01 seconds, get a million miles per gallon, and cost less than $5,000. |