Gordon Moore

American chemist and co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel — and author of Moore's Law (1965), the observation that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years — making him the scientist whose observation became the most important technology roadmap in history.

Articulated Moore's Law in a 1965 Electronics Magazine article — as a three-page paper predicting integrated circuit cost reduction — which became a self-fulfilling prophecy that organized the entire semiconductor industry's investment and planning for 60 years.