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Moore's Law originated in Gordon E. Moore's April 1965 article "Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits," published in Electronics magazine while Moore was at Fairchild Semiconductor. Moore initially projected annual transistor doubling; he revised this to a two-year cycle in 1975.
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