TechRadar Quote of the Day Turns to Gordon Moore's Two-Year Transistor Doubling Forecast
TechRadar selected Intel co-founder Gordon Moore's prediction that transistor counts on a chip would roughly double every 24 months as its quote of the day.
The extract attributes the statement to Moore and sets out a two-year cadence for the density of circuitry placed on a single chip. In TechRadar's framing, that estimate became the reference point for successive generations of faster computing rather than a one-off observation about a single product.
The published extract gives no date or occasion for when Moore made the remark, and TechRadar's entry presents the sentence on its own, without additional technical detail on how the doubling was measured or which chip generations were being counted.
The item carries the byline of Keumars Afifi-Sabet. According to the contributor note published with the piece, he is a freelance contributor to TechRadar and technology editor for Live Science, and has written for outlets including ITPro, The Week Digital and ComputerActive. The note states that he has worked as a technology journalist for more than five years and previously served as features editor at ITPro, where he oversaw the commissioning and publishing of long-form work in areas including AI, cyber security, cloud computing and digital transformation.
TechRadar's note describes him as an NCTJ-qualified journalist who specialises in technology. He began in journalism through student media while studying for a degree in biomedical sciences at Queen Mary, University of London, and after graduating wrote as a freelancer for local and national publications including The Independent, The Observer and Metro, according to the same note. While studying for his NCTJ certification, the note says, his work was commended in the "Top Scoop" category at the 2017 NCTJ awards. It adds that he is registered as a foundational chartered manager with the Chartered Management Institute, having qualified as a Level 3 team leader with distinction in 2023.
The quote-of-the-day format places Moore's projection before TechRadar's readers decades after it was made, at a time when the industry continues to measure progress in chip density and computing performance. The wording published by TechRadar fixes the interval at 24 months.