[book] Moore's Law: The Untold Story

Daniel Foty 

Moore's Law: The Untold Story 

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform 

August 18, 2017; pp. 400; ISBN: 978-1974698431 

 

“Moore's Law' has entered popular parlance in a variety of ways. But what exactly is "Moore‘s Law?" And how did it happen?

In this book. Daniel Foty - a PhD. engineer and commercial-grade veteran of more than twenty-f‌ive years in the semiconductor industry and allied f‌ields - takes the reader through the tangled and bizarre sequence of events that eventually led to ‘Moore’s Law” and the ubiquitous silicon technology which has resulted. The deep roots of this remarkable story go back some twenty centuries, and that story involves an unlikely collection of happenstances. Gifts of nature, and totally unexpected developments. Along the way, the reader meets many of the players in that story - from the well-known (such as Benjamin Franklin and Gordon Moore) to the (unfortunately) less—well-known (such as Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce). In the f‌inal analysis, “Moore's Law" was neither imposed nor discovered - but instead represents a remarkable concatenation of a series of natural flukes that compounded into a juggernaut. 

Written for the non-specialist, the untold story of “Moore's Law" is told here with fresh depth and proper historical insight.