In the trade journal of radio industry, an article titled Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits appeared on April 19, 1965. It was contributed by Gordon E. Moore, an electronics engineer. This article may be the most influential trade magazine article ever published.

Moore extrapolated his observations in the newly set up semiconductor industry in proximity of San Francisco. By doing so he was forecasting the future of computing.

Amongst either things, he predicted that the number of transistors that an engineer crams on a chip of silicon would double every two years. This projection has been borne out over the decades. It is now known as Moore’s Law. A chip could accommodate only 4 transistors some sixty years ago. It now can carry 11.8 billion.

Moore later went on to run Intel.