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https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/newsroom/news/gordon-moore-obituary.html
In an undated photo, Gordon Moore works at Intel Corporation. Intel and
the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced that company co-founder
Gordon Moore died on March 24, 2023. The author of Moore's Law was 94.
(Credit: Intel Corporation)
Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel Corporation, is interviewed by Tom
Friedman in 2015 during 50th anniversary ceremonies of Moore's Law.
Moore co-founded Intel Corporation in July 1968 and served the company
as executive vice president, president, chief executive officer and
chairman of the board. (Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)
Gordon Moore was the co-founder of Intel Corporation and the author of
Moore's Law. He co-founded Intel Corporation in July 1968 and served the
company as executive vice president, president, chief executive officer
and chairman of the board. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
A photo from the 1970s shows Gordon Moore (left) and Robert Noyce. Moore
and Noyce were co-founders of Intel Corporation in July 1968. Moore
served the company as executive vice president, president, chief
executive officer and chairman of the board. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel Corporation, is interviewed in 2015
during 50th anniversary ceremonies of Moore's Law. Moore co-founded
Intel Corporation in July 1968 and served the company as executive vice
president, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board.
(Credit: Walden Kirsch/Intel Corporation)
Gordon Moore was the co-founder of Intel Corporation and the author of
Moore's Law. He co-founded Intel Corporation in July 1968 and served the
company as executive vice president, president, chief executive officer
and chairman of the board. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
Gordon Moore was the co-founder of Intel Corporation and the author of
Moore's Law. He co-founded Intel Corporation in July 1968 and served the
company as executive vice president, president, chief executive officer
and chairman of the board. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
Gordon Moore was the co-founder of Intel Corporation and the author of
Moore's Law. He co-founded Intel Corporation in July 1968 and served the
company as executive vice president, president, chief executive officer
and chairman of the board. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
Gordon Moore was the co-founder of Intel Corporation and the author of
Moore's Law. He co-founded Intel Corporation in July 1968 and served the
company as executive vice president, president, chief executive officer
and chairman of the board. (Credit: Intel Corporation)
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SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 24, 2023 – Intel and the Gordon and Betty
Moore Foundation announced today that company co-founder Gordon Moore
has passed away at the age of 94.
The foundation reported he died peacefully on Friday, March 24, 2023,
surrounded by family at his home in Hawaii.
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. In 1979, Moore was named chairman of the board
and chief executive officer, posts he held until 1987, when he gave up
the CEO position and continued as chairman. In 1997, Moore became
chairman emeritus, stepping down in 2006.
More: Gordon Moore: He Stood Alone Among Tech Titans (Tribute) | Gordon
Moore at Intel (Press Kit)
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.
“Those of us who have met and worked with Gordon will forever be
inspired by his wisdom, humility and generosity,” reflected foundation
president Harvey Fineberg. “Though he never aspired to be a household
name, Gordon’s vision and his life’s work enabled the phenomenal
innovation and technological developments that shape our everyday lives.
Yet those historic achievements are only part of his legacy. His and
Betty’s generosity as philanthropists will shape the world for
generations to come.”
Pat Gelsinger, Intel CEO, said, “Gordon Moore defined the technology
industry through his insight and vision. He was instrumental in
revealing the power of transistors, and inspired technologists and
entrepreneurs across the decades. We at Intel remain inspired by Moore’s
Law and intend to pursue it until the periodic table is exhausted.
Gordon’s vision lives on as our true north as we use the power of
technology to improve the lives of every person on Earth. My career and
much of my life took shape within the possibilities fueled by Gordon’s
leadership at the helm of Intel, and I am humbled by the honor and
responsibility to carry his legacy forward.”
Frank D. Yeary, chair of Intel’s board of directors, said, “Gordon was a
brilliant scientist and one of America’s leading entrepreneurs and
business leaders. It is impossible to imagine the world we live in
today, with computing so essential to our lives, without the
contributions of Gordon Moore. He will always be an inspiration to our
Intel family and his thinking at the core of our innovation culture.”
Andy Bryant, former chairman of Intel’s board of directors, said, “I
will remember Gordon as a brilliant scientist, a straight-talker and an
astute businessperson who sought to make the world better and always do
the right thing. It was a privilege to know him, and I am grateful that
his legacy lives on in the culture of the company he helped to create.”
Prior to establishing Intel, Moore and Noyce participated in the
founding of Fairchild Semiconductor, where they played central roles in
the first commercial production of diffused silicon transistors and
later the world’s first commercially viable integrated circuits. The two
had previously worked together under William Shockley, the co-inventor
of the transistor and founder of Shockley Semiconductor, which was the
first semiconductor company established in what would become Silicon
Valley. Upon striking out on their own, Moore and Noyce hired future
Intel CEO Andy Grove as the third employee, and the three of them built
Intel into one of the world’s great companies. Together they became
known as the “Intel Trinity,” and their legacy continues today.
In addition to Moore’s seminal role in founding two of the world’s
pioneering technology companies, he famously forecast in 1965 that the
number of transistors on an integrated circuit would double every year –
a prediction that came to be known as Moore’s Law.
“All I was trying to do was get that message across, that by putting
more and more stuff on a chip we were going to make all electronics
cheaper,” Moore said in a 2008 interview.
With his 1965 prediction proven correct, in 1975 Moore revised his
estimate to the doubling of transistors on an integrated circuit every
two years for the next 10 years. Regardless, the idea of chip technology
growing at an exponential rate, continually making electronics faster,
smaller and cheaper, became the driving force behind the semiconductor
industry and paved the way for the ubiquitous use of chips in millions
of everyday products.
In 2022, Gelsinger announced the renaming of the Ronler Acres campus in
Oregon – where Intel teams develop future process technologies – to
Gordon Moore Park at Ronler Acres. The RA4 building that’s home for much
of Intel’s Technology Development Group was also renamed The Moore
Center along with its café, The Gordon.
“I can think of no better way to honor Gordon and the profound impact
he’s had on this company than by bestowing his name on this campus,”
Gelsinger said at the event. “I hope we did you proud today, Gordon. And
the world thanks you.”
Gordon Earle Moore was born in San Francisco on Jan. 3, 1929, to Walter
Harold and Florence Almira “Mira” (Williamson) Moore. Moore was educated
at San Jose State University, the University of California at Berkeley,
and the California Institute of Technology, where he was awarded a Ph.D.
in chemistry in 1954.
He started his research career at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics
Laboratory in Maryland. He returned to California in 1956 to join
Shockley Semiconductor. In 1957, Moore co-founded Fairchild
Semiconductor, a division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument, along with
Robert Noyce and six other colleagues from Shockley Semiconductor.
Eleven years later, Moore and Noyce co-founded Intel.
With Fairchild and Intel came financial success. Beginning with
individual gifts, many of them anonymous, then forming the Moore Family
Foundation, and eventually, in 2000, creating the Gordon and Betty Moore
Foundation, Moore and his wife sought through philanthropy to make the
world a better place for future generations. His passion for impact and
measurement were hallmarks of his philanthropic work and aspirations.
He received the National Medal of Technology from President George H.W.
Bush in 1990, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s
highest civilian honor, from President George W. Bush in 2002.
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. Moore also served as a member of the board of directors of
Conservation International and Gilead Sciences, Inc. He was a member of
the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Society of
Engineers, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers. He served as chairman of the board of trustees of the
California Institute of Technology from 1995 until the beginning of
2001, and continued as a Life Trustee.
In 1950, Moore married Betty Irene Whitaker, who survives him. Moore is
also survived by sons Kenneth and Steven and four grandchildren.
About the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
Gordon and Betty Moore established the foundation to create positive
outcomes for future generations. In pursuit of that vision, we foster
path-breaking scientific discovery, environmental conservation, patient
care improvements and preservation of the special character of the San
Francisco Bay Area. Visit Moore.org or follow -at-MooreFound on Twitter.
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