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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.

The article states that Intel Corp. announced that it was on track or even ahead of schedule in developing a new generation of chips that would achieve a significant increase in performance without consuming more power. The chips will have wires as short as 45 nanometers and the resulting chips will have as many as 829 million transistors.