2006, Chemical Heritage Foundation

The rise of semiconductor electronics is among the most important global developments of the past half-century. Clearly, insights into the dynamics that have brought us this silicon revolution are vital to our understanding of the world today and our common future.

With the proliferation of silicon chips into nearly every aspect of contemporary life, Moore's law is increasingly looked to as a bellwether for the whole of technological development.  This text places the silicon revolution in a broad context and charts Gordon Moore's development of his eponymous law across its forty-year life.

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i		Front Matter (191 KB; title pages, copyright page,table of contents, preface)
		PART ONE: HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION
3		Chapter One: Before Moore's Law: Lineages of Chemistry and Electricity (191 KB) Arnold Thackray
7		Chapter Two: The Backdrop to Moore's Law: Developments in Semiconductor Electronics to 1965 (844 KB) David C. Brock
		PART TWO: ARTICULATIONS
25		Chapter 3: A Clear Voice: the Origins of Gordon Moore's 1965 Paper (827 KB) David C. Brock
		Chapter 4: Moore's original essay (2.7 MB) Gordon E. Moore
55		Chapter 5: Cramming More Components into Integrated Circuits (333 KB) Gordon E. Moore
61		Chapter 6: Progress in Digital Integrated Electronics (521 KB) Gordon E. Moore
67		Chapter 7: Moore's Law at 40 (2.2 MB) Gordon E. Moore
		PART THREE: REFLECTIONS
87		Chapter 8: Reflections on Moore's Law (212 KB) David C. Brock
110		Bibliography and Index (122 KB)