The story
Two of the Fairchild defectors left again to bet on semiconductor memory. Their 4004 put a computer on a chip in 1971, and Moore's prediction about transistor counts became the industry's schedule for half a century.
No. 003 · 1968 · Mountain View
Intel
Quit Fairchild. Raise in two days. Double every two years.
Moore's Law, in person
Make my startup a legend- 1 1968. Two of the Traitorous Eight quit again.
- 2 Their investor raises $2.5M in almost no time.
- 3 The business plan is about one page.
- 4 1971. They put a computer on a chip.
- 5 Moore's Law: chips keep doubling.
- 6 Fabs get bigger. Transistors get smaller.
- 7 Billions of transistors on your fingernail.
- 8 Everyone still plans around that one graph.
- Founders
- Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore
- Founded
- 1968, Mountain View
- What they do
- The processors inside most of the world's PCs and servers.