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Subject: Intel offers $10,	000 for Moore's Law article  Firm seeks pristine
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DTL&type=3Dbusiness">ntel offers $10,000 for Moore's Law article / Firm seeks=
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Intel offers $10,000 for Moore's Law article=20
Firm seeks pristine copy of founder's prescient words


Intel Corp. lives by Moore's Law, but it apparently doesn't have a copy of=20
the magazine in which the law was first laid down. The Santa Clara chip giant=
=20
has posted a $10,000 bounty on eBay for someone who can provide a pristine Ap=
ril=20
19, 1965, copy of Electronics magazine. That issue of the magazine contained =

an article by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore that described how the number of =

components on integrated circuits was doubling every year. The article became=
=20
the foundation for his famed dictum. "We have photocopies of the article but =

not the actual issue of the magazine," an Intel spokesman said. "Gordon doesn=
't=20
have it and the Intel Museum doesn't either." Electronics magazine went out o=
f=20
business several years ago. Intel turned to the online auction site on=20
Monday, posting a message on eBay's Want It Now page offering $10,000 for a c=
opy of=20
the magazine in mint condition. (The company may buy more than one copy but a=
t=20
a lower price. Intel employees and their families are ineligible.) Moore's=20
Law -- which has since been revised to estimate that the number of transistor=
s=20
doubles every 18 months -- has been the cornerstone for the information=20
technology industry for decades as it has defined how products can simultaneo=
usly=20
drop in price while improving in performance. This has created a situation in=
=20
which users upgrade well before their equipment breaks, a boon for the indust=
ry.=20
Despite its historical significance, the article at the time wasn't considere=
d=20
a monument. "I didn't think it would be especially accurate," Moore said in a=
=20
recent interview. Moore, 76, was born in San Francisco and received a=20
bachelor's degree in chemistry from UC Berkeley. He was research director at =
the=20
Fairchild Semiconductor division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. whe=
n he=20
wrote the Electronics magazine article in 1965, and in 1968 he co-founded=20
Intel. Chronicle staff contributed to this report. Page D - 1=20
URL:=20
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=3D/chronicle/archive/2005/04/12/BU=
G63C6H4V1.DTL=20
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