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Intel offers $10,000 for Moore's Law article

San Francisco Chronicle, Cnet.com

Tuesday 12 April 2005, 5:59 pm
Keywords: Computer Topics , News Articles

Firm seeks pristine copy of founder's prescient words

By Michael Kanellos, Cnet News

Tuesday, April 12, 2005 Intel Corp. lives by Moore's Law, but it apparently doesn't have a copy of the magazine in which the law was first laid down.

The Santa Clara chip giant has posted a $10,000 bounty on eBay for someone who can provide a pristine April 19, 1965, copy of Electronics magazine.

That issue of the magazine contained an article by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that described how the number of components on integrated circuits was doubling every year. The article became the foundation for his famed dictum.

Moore's Law -- which has since been revised to estimate that the number of transistors doubles every 18 months -- has been the cornerstone for the information technology industry for decades as it has defined how products can simultaneously drop in price while improving in performance.

Despite its historical significance, the article at the time wasn't considered a monument.

"I didn't think it would be especially accurate," Moore said in a recent interview.

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