Moore's 1965 paper was about transistor count doubling every 12 months rather than frequency but "Moore's Law" didn't come into use as a term until 1975, by whi

Moore's 1965 paper was about transistor count doubling every 12 months rather than frequency but "Moore's Law" didn't come into use as a term until 1975, by which time Moore was giving shrinking feature sizes equal billing[1]. And Moore himself wrote a memo endorsing a more general use of the term "Moore's Law" for any chip performance metric that doubles regularly. I can't find a copy online but I have it in my old Computer Architecture lecture notes. And performance and scaling were identical as long as Dennard scaling[2] lasted. [1]http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~agrawvd/COURSE/E7770_Spr07/READ/Gordon_Moore_1975_Speech.pdf http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~agrawvd/COURSE/E7770_Spr07/READ/G... [2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennard_scaling