Gordon Moore
1929 – 2023 American chemist, semiconductor executive, Intel co-founder
Co-founder of Intel who framed Moore's Law, the observation that chip transistor counts double at a steady pace.
- Affiliations
- Fairchild Semiconductor, Intel Corporation
Gordon Moore was a physical chemist who joined William Shockley's semiconductor lab and then left as one of the traitorous eight to co-found Fairchild Semiconductor. In a 1965 article he observed that the number of transistors on a chip was doubling at a regular rate, a projection that became known as Moore's Law and served as the roadmap for the electronics industry for decades. In 1968 he co-founded Intel with Robert Noyce, which grew into the dominant maker of microprocessors. He later gave much of his fortune to science and conservation through his foundation.
Connections
- associate of William Shockley — Recruited Moore to his lab, then lost him among the traitorous eight.
- associate of William Shockley — Worked at Shockley Semiconductor before leaving as one of the traitorous eight.
In the timeline
- 1956 Shockley brings the transistor to the West Coast a Shockley recruit
- 1957 The traitorous eight found Fairchild Semiconductor one of the eight
- 1958 The integrated circuit co-founder of the firms that mass-produced it
- 1965 Gordon Moore describes Moore's Law central figure
- 1965 Moore publishes the paper behind Moore's Law mentioned
- 1968 Founding of Intel mentioned
- 1968 Noyce and Moore found Intel mentioned
- 1971 The microprocessor Intel co-founder