"In 1965, six years after the invention of the transistor, Moore forecast in a magazine article that the number of transistors and other components on a chip would double every year for the next decade. The prediction, dubbed Moore’s Law by an Intel colleague, has come to exemplify the onrush of technological advance ever since."
https://www.ft.com/content/fd02fefd-5312-432a-b1df-9668b438443d