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摘要

The first semiconductor revolution was built around the silicon microprocessor. Then the first Intel microprocessors appeared in the early 1970s, with typically 2,300 transistors per chip. Improvements in processing technology allowed engineers to shrink transistor size so that more transistors could be crammed onto a chip-a trend that became known as Moore's Law, following observations by Gordon Moore, CEO of Intel.