A History Lesson

Computers as a Catalyst in Pharmacy | by Bill Lockwood

We have to thank Robert Royce and Gordon Moore as the architects of what we now know as “chips,” the backbone of the computers we use today in our phones, laptops, and desktops, and that power the servers used in our Google searches.

Noyce and Moore were two of the founders of Fairchild Semiconductor, which later became Intel. Intel developed the first commercial microprocessor that included 2,300 transistors, with circuits that were about the thickness of a human hair arranged in a thumbnail-size package with the processing power of a computer that would have once occupied an entire closet, according to a special report in Bloomberg Businessweek “The Tech Issue” (May 6, 2024).

Back in 1965 Moore predicted that the number of …