Gordon Moore (Courtesy of Intel)
Intel announced on the 24th that one of its co-founders, Gordon Moore, passed away. He is 94 years old.
Moore co-founded Intel in 1968 with Robert Noyce. He became president in 1975 and chairman and chief executive officer in 1979. He is also known as the founder of “Moore’s Law”. In a paper he wrote in 1965, he predicted that “the number of transistors in an integrated circuit doubles every year” (excerpt and translation from Intel’s press release). Since then, its content has become known as “Moore’s Law”, and it is also the driving force behind Intel’s new CPU development.
