Moores law
Moore's Law goes back to Gordon Moore, a co-founder of Intel, who predicted in the 1960s that the number of transistors in integrated circuits(IC) would double every year.
In 1975, he qualified this rule of thumb, which he made because of the rapid development of the semiconductor industry, by predicting that the active components of a chip would double approximately every two years. Today, it is assumed that the doubling period of 18 months is sufficiently accurate.
Moore's Law refers to the number of active components, but it also applies to the integration density, which is expressed in technological advances. Although it was not developed for communication technology, a development course is also shown for data rates that essentially corresponds to Moore's Law.