SAN FRANCISCO, March 25 ― Intel Corp co-founder Gordon Moore, a pioneer in the semiconductor industry whose “Moore's Law” predicted a steady rise in computing power...
SAN FRANCISCO, March 25 ― Intel Corp co-founder Gordon Moore, a pioneer in the semiconductor industry whose “Moore's Law” predicted a steady rise in computing power for decades, died yesterday at the age of 94, the company announced.
In an article he wrote in 1965, Moore observed that, thanks to improvements in technology, the number of transistors on microchips had roughly doubled every year since integrated circuits were invented a few years before. After Moore's article, chips became more efficient and less expensive at an exponential rate, helping drive much of the world's technological progress for half a century and allowing the advent of not just personal computers, but the internet and Silicon Valley giants like Apple, Facebook and Google.
But despite manufacturing stumbles that have caused Intel to lose market share in recent years, current Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger has said he believes Moore's Law still holds as the company invests billions of dollars in a turnaround effort.magazine that he did not buy a home computer himself until the late 1980s.
Moore and Noyce's first hire was another Fairchild colleague, Andy Grove, who would lead Intel through much of its explosive growth in the 1980s and 1990s.magazine as an “accidental entrepreneur” who had no burning urge to start a company ― but he, Noyce and Grove formed a powerhouse partnership.
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