That's a common misconception and I'm not surprised it made it into Wikipedia. Moore's 1965 paper was the first time anybody had pointed out the exponential na

That's a common misconception and I'm not surprised it made it into Wikipedia. Moore's 1965 paper was the first time anybody had pointed out the exponential nature of progress in miniaturizing transistors and packing more of them on the same integrated circuit. But it wasn't until 1975 a the same conference where Dennard presented his scaling laws that the phrase "Moore's Law" was coined in an interview where someone was trying to explain Dennard scaling to a reporter. The original coining was ambiguous as to whether it meant more transistors, faster transistors, or smaller transistors and that ambiguity remained in its usage because from 1975 until about 2005 they all went together just as Dennard said they would. And my lecture notes from a class I took on semiconductor physics in college had a photo copy of a memo from Moore himself endorsing this broader conception of Moore's Law.