Power management is, literally and metaphorically, the hottest area in computing and computing appliances. In 1965, while working at Fairchild Semiconductor, Gordon Moore predicted that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit would double approximately every two years. Moore’s law, as his observation has been dubbed, has so far been the foundation of the business of per- sonal computing and its derivative applications. With its publication in Electronics magazine on April 19‘h, 1965, Moore’s law was introduced to the world, along with its profound technological, business, and finan- cial implications
