Intel co-founder Gordon Moore dies at 94
Gordon E Moore, co-founder of the American multinational corporation and technology company, Intel Corporation, died on Saturday at his home in Hawaii, The New York Times reported.
Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation both acknowledged his passing, however, they did not provide details of his passing.
Moore’s vision of the exponential growth of computer chip technology in the 1960s set the stage for the high-tech era. As the New York Times reports, the Californian semiconductor chip maker that helped give Silicon Valley its name achieved vast industrial dominance formerly held by giant American railroads or the steel industries of bygone eras.
Moore always called himself an ‘accidental entrepreneur’ because he always wanted to be a teacher but couldn’t. Due to his original US$500 investment in the nascent microchip industry, which helped make electronics one of the largest industries in the world, he became a billionaire.
In addition, he is credited with making laptop computers accessible to millions of people and putting microprocessors inside everything from toaster ovens, bathroom scales, and toy fire trucks to telephones, automobiles, and aircraft, The New York Times reported.
Moore contributed greatly to philanthropy along with his wife, Betty Moore.
The two established the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation in 2001 and donated 175 million Intel shares in the process. He made the largest single gift to the university, giving US$600 million to the California Institute of Technology in 2001.
Moore and his longtime colleague Robert Noyce founded Intel in July 1968.
Prior to taking over as President in 1975, Moore was Executive Vice President. Moore was appointed chairman of the board and CEO in 1979, positions he held until 1987 when he resigned from the CEO role but retained the chairmanship, the Intel Newsroom reported.
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