Gordon Moore

Gordon Earle Moore (1929 to 2023) was an American businessman, scientist and engineer, the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation, and the proposer of Moore's law, the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles about every two years. Born in 1929 as the second son of a San Mateo County constable, he studied chemistry at the University of California, Berkeley, and earned a PhD in chemistry from the California Institute of Technology in 1954. He left Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory with the traitorous eight to help create Fairchild Semiconductor, where in 1965 he made the prediction later called Moore's law. In July 1968 he and Robert Noyce founded NM Electronics, which became Intel; he was its president from 1975, chairman and chief executive from 1979 and chairman emeritus from 1997. In 2000 he and his wife established the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.