Moore´s law, microcomputer, and me

In 1960--ten years before Intel developed the first single-chip CPU (microcomputer central processing unit)-the revolution that would ensue was inconceivable: the cost of computing dropped by a factor of a million, modes of personal communication changed forever, and intelligent machines took over processes in manufacturing, transportation, medicine-virtually every aspect of our lives. Certainly Moore´s law - that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every year, later amended to every two years - is a dominant factor in this revolution. In this paper, the author gives his views on Moore´s law and focus on the role of applications engineering in developing Intel´s first microcomputer.