Gordon Moore made his famous observation
in 1965, just four years after the first planar integrated circuit was
discovered. The press called it "Moore's Law" and the name has
stuck. In his original paper, Moore observed an exponential growth in the
number of transistors per integrated circuit and predicted that this trend
would continue. Through Intel's relentless technology advances, Moore's Law,
the doubling of transistors every couple of years, has been maintained, and
still holds true today. Intel expects that it will continue at least through
the end of this decade. The mission of Intel's technology development team is
to continue to break down barriers to Moore's Law.
(from Intel WWW site:
http://www.intel.com/research/silicon/mooreslaw.htm)