The rate of technological advancement as a function of time is governed by the correlation by which the number of components in very large-scale integration (VLSI) integrated circuits (ICs) and their total computing power double approximately every 18–24 months (Moore 1965; Hutcheson 2009). This phenomenon is known as Moore’s law, and was predicted in a 1965 paper by Gordon Moore (Moore 1965), the co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel.