Moore's Law

Moore's Law Keeps Going, Defying Expectations

It’s a mystery why Gordon Moore’s “law,” which forecasts processor power will double every two years, still holds true a half century later

By Annie Sneed | May 19, 2015

Credit: Jon Sullivan/Wikimedia Commons

SAN FRANCISCO—Personal computers, cellphones, self-driving cars—Gordon Moore predicted the invention of all these technologies half a century ago in a 1965 article for Electronics magazine. The enabling force behind those inventions would be computing power, and Moore laid out how he thought computing power would evolve over the coming decade. Last week the tech world celebrated his predictionhere because it has held true with uncanny accuracy—for the past 50 years.