Moore's Law: WSJ

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Don Clark, Turning 50, Tech Axiom Moore's Law Show Age. Wall Street Journal, Apr 18, 2015 (front page).
www.wsj.com/articles/moores-law-runs-out-of-gas-1429282819

Quote:

"Mr Moore was director of the research and development laboratories at Fairchild Semiconductor, a * * * seminal Silicon Valley startup, when Electronics magazine published his predictions on April 19, 1965 * * * Fairchild sold its first transistors for $150 each * * * Semiconductor giant Intel Corp’s Core i5 microprocessors include 1.3 billion transistors, each costing $0.00000014, or a penny per 70,000 transistors, according to the Santa Clara, Calif, company.

"Mr Moore, now 86 years old, didn’t use the words 'Moore’s Law' in his [Electronics] article * * * 'I googled "Moore’s Law" and I googled "Murphy’s Law" and "Moore" beats "Murphy" by at least two to one,' he said in a January interview [conducted] by Intel. * * * He now lives in Hawaii. Mr Moore couldn’t be reached

"Micron and Intel expect to produce so-called 3-D [ie, stacked] NAND chips that initially store as much as 384 gigabits of data, or three times more than conventional memory chips.  Later this year, Intel expects to deliver a chip for specialized applications with eight billion transistors [codenamed: Knights Landing or Xeon Phi or both (in that order); reports seemingly differ in names]

My comment:
(a) There is no need to read the rest.

(b) "Intel Corp’s Core i5 microprocessors include 1.3 billion transistors"
(i) Intel Core
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Core
a brand name; replaced Pentium processors; As of 2015 the current lineup of Core processors included the latest Intel Core i7, Intel Core i5, and Intel Core i3)
(ii) list of Intel Core i5 microprocessors
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i5_microprocessors
(a microprocessor under Core i5 brand name has ranged 45 nm (776m transistors per microprocessor), through 32nm (1.16b transistors) and 22 nm (1.3 or 1.4b transistors, depending on versions), to 14 nm (1.3-19b transistors))

(c) For Murphy's law, see Edward A Murphy, Jr
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_A._Murphy,_Jr.