Gordon Moore, one of the founders of US chipmaker Intel and a central figure in the history of Silicon Valley, has passed away at the age of 94.
Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation reported he died peacefully on Friday surrounded by family at his home in Hawaii.
Born in San Francisco in 1929, Moore earned a Ph.D. in chemistry at the California Institute of Technology before moving to the East Coast for a position at Johns Hopkins University.
Moore and his longtime colleague Robert Noyce founded Intel in July 1968. Moore initially served as executive vice president until 1975, when he became president.
After retiring from Intel in 2006, Moore divided his time between California and Hawaii, serving as chairman of the board for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation until transitioning to chairman emeritus in 2018.
During his lifetime, Moore also dedicated his focus and energy to philanthropy, particularly environmental conservation, science, and patient care improvements. Along with his wife of 72 years, he established the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which has donated more than $5.1 billion to charitable causes since its founding in 2000.
In addition to his formal contributions to the computer industry, he is also famed as the creator of Moore’s Law in 1965, in which the computing power of chips would double over time, yet the price per computer would fall for the mass of tech-buying consumers – a prediction that has stood up well in large part.
Source: Anadolu Agency