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Discusses the implications of Apple Computer's decision to shift the Macintosh microprocessor business to longtime rival Intel, after more than a decade with IBM. Comments of Appel's chief, Steven P. Jobs and Paul S. Otellini, head of Intel; Outlook for the changeover; Challenges, including persuading Apple customers to continue to buy Mac computers based on IBM's PowerPC chip while waiting for the Intel versions to arrive; How the Intel-Apple partnership could affect the balance in the industry; Views of skeptics.

Focuses on a notion introduced by Gordon E. Moore forty years ago in "Electronics" magazine -- and later referred to as Moore's Law -- that several transistors could be placed on one computer chip. Similarities in Moore's prediction in 1963 and that of Douglas C. Engelbart in 1960, yet Moore is credited with the idea; Impact of these two men on the culture of Silicon Valley and computing industry; Recount of the early work performed by both Moore and Engelbart, noting Moore's founding of Intel Corp. and Engelbart's involvement with Stanford Research Institute, now SRI International; Engelbart's early work with integrated circuits.