Lithography and the future of Moore's law

The original paper that postulated the first version ofthe "law" was an article I wrote for the 3 5th anniversary issue ofElectronics Magazine in 1 965 . My assignment was to predict what was going to happen in the semiconductor components industry over the next ten years -to 1975 . In 1965 the integrated circuit was only a few years old and in many cases was not very well accepted. There was still a large contingent in the user community who wanted to design their own circuits and who considered the job of the semiconductor industry to be to supply them with transistors and diodes so they could get on with their jobs. I was trying to emphasize the fact that integrated circuits really did have an important role to play.