MANAGING POWER ELECTRONICS

In 1965, while working at Fairchild Semiconductor, Gordon Moore
predicted that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit would
double approximately every two years. Moore’s law, as his observation
has been dubbed, has so far been the foundation of the business of per-
sonal computing and its derivative applications. With its publication in
Electronics magazine on April 19‘h, 1965, Moore’s law was introduced
to the world, along with its profound technological, business, and finan-
cial implications.