As the processes were being developed, Gordon Moore of Intel Corporation identified a advancing trend. In an article published in the April 19, 1965 issue of Electronics Magazine named "Cramming more components onto integrated circuits," he found that "The complexity for minimum component cost has increased by a factor of two per year," and calculated the rate to hold for short period or even for coming 10 years or so. In 1975, Moore predictable a doubling in every couple of years, however that has been ofetn misquoted as "every 18 months." This led directly to the most popular formulation of Moore's "Law" which predicts the doubling of the number of transistors on integrated circuits every 18 months.

As the semiconductor industry continues to expand the number of transistors on integrated circuits ear after era in roughly in consideration with Moore's Law, this "law" became more of a "goal." It was acknowledged that even if the organization failed to keep pace with Moore's Law, competitors likely would, and the company would be at an ever growing competitive disadvantage. Many times, seemingly impossible technical limitations to keeping pace with Moore's Law have been overcome.

In keeping a watch on the number of transistors packed into Intel microprocessors from the lowly 4004 to the present times Itanium II, Moore's Law as said by Gordon Moore in 1975 as doubling every two years appears to hold true even from the current era of integrated circuits. Although, there are still more apparently impossible technical limitation in future.