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In a 1965 paper, Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and CEO of Intel, observed that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubled about every year. In 1975, Moore revised his estimate going forward to doubling every two years.

The first single-chip central processing unit (CPU) was developed at Intel in 1970. In the intervening half-century, computing power has increased roughly according to Moore’s law. For example, in 1951, Christopher Strachey taught the Ferranti Mark 1 computer to play chess. Forty-six years later, the IBM Deep Blue computer beat world chess champion Garry Kasparov. Deep Blue was 10 million times faster than the Mark 1.

While the curve is starting to level out, 50 years of advances in processing power has established computing platforms capable of the massive, parallel-processing power required to develop natural-language processing (NLP), self-driving cars, advanced robotics, and other AI disciplines.