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Publication of Moore's Law

Gordon Moore is drafting his seminal article 'Cramming more components onto integrated circuits' for Electronics magazine, studying a graph that reveals an exponential growth pattern in transistor den

Setting

A mid-century modern office at Fairchild Semiconductor headquarters in Palo Alto. The room is a functional workspace with large windows looking out onto the semiconductor campus. The office is modest but well-equipped, reflecting the pragmatic ethos of the early tech industry.

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Gordon Moore
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A 36-year-old man of average height with a lean build, short brown hair neatly combed, and a clean-shaven face. His wire-rimmed glasses perch on his nose, slightly magnifying his sharp, analytical eyes. His hands are those of a scientist—precise and occasionally ink-stained from drafting notes.
Fairchild Engineer
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A young man in his mid-20s with a lean build, clean-shaven face, and short-cropped brown hair. His wire-rimmed glasses slightly magnify his alert brown eyes, and there's a faint tan line on his wrist from where his watch usually sits during lab work.
Lab Technician
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A young man in his late 20s, lean build with short-cropped brown hair and wire-rimmed glasses. His hands show faint chemical stains from lab work, and he moves with the cautious precision of someone handling fragile materials.

Dialog

Gordon Moore The trend... it's holding. Every year, roughly doubling.
Fairchild Engineer Sir, the new wafer yields confirm it—1,024 components on the R&D batch.
Gordon Moore At this rate... in twenty years, we'll be putting tens of thousands on a single chip.
Fairchild Engineer The photolithography team says the scaling limits aren't even in sight yet.
Gordon Moore Then this isn't just an observation... it's a law of manufacturing.

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