Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, a Silicon Valley tech pioneer whose 'Moore's Law' predicted a steady rise in computing power for decades, died Friday at the age of 94.
SAN FRANCISCO -- Intel co-founder Gordon Moore, a pioneer in the semiconductor industry whose"Moore's Law" predicted a steady rise in computing power for decades, died Friday 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 CEO Pat Gelsinger has said he believes Moore's Law still holds as the company invests billions of dollars in a turnaround effort.Even though he predicted the PC movement, Moore told Forbes 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. Moore's obvious talent also inspired other engineers working for him, and, under his and Noyce's leadership, Intel invented the microprocessors that would open the way to the personal computer revolution.
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