> Moore also affirmed he never said transistor count would double every 18 months, as is commonly said. Initially, he said transistors on a chip would double ev

> Moore also affirmed he never said transistor count would double every 18 months, as is commonly said. Initially, he said transistors on a chip would double every year. He then recalibrated it to every two years in 1975. David House, an Intel executive at the time, noted that the changes would cause computer performance to double every 18 months. From https://www.cnet.com/news/moores-law-to-roll-on-for-another-decade/ https://www.cnet.com/news/moores-law-to-roll-on-for-another-... (a source for the the Wikipedia page).