In 1965, Fairchild Semiconductor's R&D Director, Gordon Moore, Noted That

Multiple Choice

In 1965, Fairchild Semiconductor's R&D Director, Gordon Moore, noted that the maximum number of transistors that could be included cost effectively in one integrated circuit had been doubling yearly since 1959. While growth has not increased quite as quickly since 1965, it has still been exponential, and the continued exponential growth has become known as "Moore's Law". Considering that Intel's 8086 processor, introduced in 1978, had 29,000 transistors, and their Itanium processor, introduced in 2002, had 220,000,000 transistors, on average how long has it taken for processors to double the number of transistors they use.

A) 1.9 years
B) 0.8 years
C) 16.0 years
D) 0.4 years