As Moore’s law turns 50, what does the future hold for the transistor?
"The future of integrated electronics is the future of electronics itself."
When Intel co-founder Gordon Moore began his now-famous 1965 paper (PDF) "Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits" with his bold proclamation about the future of electronics, few would have believed it—especially given the cost of integrated circuits at the time. And yet, 50 years on, Moore's three-page paper has come to define the computing industry. Its most famous prediction, that the number of components on an integrated circuit would double every year (later revised down to two years a decade later) has become a self-fulfilling prophecy for the computing industry, a solid goal for the world's semiconductor manufacturers to reach for.
