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
Silvaco Data Systems v. Intel Corp. code is derived from the program's source code, an individual possessing the object code does not possess any knowledge of any trade secrets embodied in the source code. The appeals court decision also prompted discussion because of a lengthy footnote contained in the opinion that decried the 8,000 pages of records filed with the court for this case, to which fact Justice Rushing commented: "Seldom have so many trees died for so little". Silvaco Data Systems v. Intel Corp. Silvaco Data Systems v. Intel Corp was a trade secrets case heard before the California Court of Appeal for the Sixth