Gordon Moore dead at 94
, a pioneer in the semiconductor industry whose Moore’s Law predicted a steady rise in computing power for decades, died on Friday at the age of 94.
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. In recent years, Intel rivals such as Nvidia have contended that Moore’s Law no longer holds as improvements in chip manufacturing have slowed down.
Even though he predicted the PC movement, Moore told Forbes magazine that he did not buy a home computer himself until the late 1980s.
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