50 Years ago yesterday, Gordon Moore published an article in Electronics which began "The future of integrated electronics is the future of electronics itself". He observed that the complexity of integrated circuits was doubling every year. At that point the sweet spot was 50 components on a single chip. A decade later he modified his estimate to doubling every two years. "Moore's Law", which is more of an observation than a law, is generally considered to imply a doubling every 18 months to two years and has continued to this day. We now see microprocessors with a couple billion transistors. It has transformed the world and will continue to do so for an unknown time to come.

At our office, in honor of this event, we will be having chips and salsa this afternoon so that we can all see how much we can get on a chip!