the delopment of computer

In 1959, engineers at Texas Instruments showed that it was possible to incorporate many transistors, connected by metal tracks, onto one piece of silicon. This innovation became know as an integrated circuit, or “silicon chip”, and the trend ever since is summarized in “Moore’s Law”: the number of transitors that can be put on a chip doubles every 12 to 18 months, Gorden Moore, who formulated this law in 1965, later cofounded the chip manufacturer Intel.