Chip Industry Traced to Moore's 1965 Ideas

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SANTA CLARA, Calif. - To mark its 35th year, Electronics magazine broke from its usual coverage of vacuum tubes, newfangled lasers and high-tech minutia to ask a handful of experts to look ahead and write about their vision of the future.

Among the contributors was the young research director of a company that made integrated circuits — a relatively recent advance that combined transistors on a chip and seemed a promising but expensive way to make electronics smaller.

"The future of integrated electronics is the future of electronics itself," he wrote. "The advantages of integration will bring about a proliferation of electronics, pushing this science into many new areas. Integrated circuits will lead to such wonders as home computers ..."

The year was 1965, the author Gordon Moore.

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050417/ap_on_hi_te/moore_s_law_at40

This is the what America should be doing with its time, money and energy. Not murdering and butchering people in countries all over the Earth!

I don't think this story emphasizes enough on the people who actually made this mircle come true.