Moore's law Moore's law Moore's law is the observation that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles about every two years. The observation is named after Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, whose 1965 paper described a doubling every year in the number of components per integrated circuit, and projected this rate of growth would continue for at least another decade. In 1975, looking forward to the next decade, he revised the forecast to doubling every two years. The period is often quoted as 18 months because of a prediction by Intel executive David House (being
Skidmore v. Swift & Co. majority in "Christensen" held that an agency's interpretation of a statute, announced in more informal agency papers (such as an opinion letter), is entitled to "Skidmore" deference, not "Chevron" deference. "United States v. Mead Corp.", 533 U.S. 218 (2001) explicitly reaffirms Skidmore and reiterates deference to agency interpretations that do not have statutory authority resulting from a rule-making process are based on "the agency's care, its consistency, formality, and relative expertness, and to the persuasiveness of the agency's position." Skidmore v. Swift & Co. Skidmore v. Swift & Co., 323 U.S. 134 (1944), is a United States Supreme Court decision