Intel Corp. 's Gordon Moore in 1965 came up with what came to beknown as Moore's Law, which stated that the numberoftransistorson a chipwilldoubleabouteverytwoyears.
The cheap revolution is a first-order effect of Moore's Law. (Moore's Law predicts the transistor density on silicon chips will double every 18 to 24 months.) For years if you said "Moore's Law, " people presumed you were describing a future of ever more powerful computers.