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Grove was born "Gróf András István" (in Hungary, the family name is first) to a middle-class Jewish family. Growing up he was known to friends as "Andris". In 1956, during the Hungarian Revolution, he left his home and family under the cover of night, and emigrated to the United States, arriving in New York in 1957. The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination... There have been a number of Hungarian Revolutions: 1848 Hungarian Revolution 1919 Hungarian Revolution 1956 Hungarian Revolution This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ...

He earned a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the City College of New York in 1960, graduating at the head of his class. After settling in California, he received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963. A bachelors degree (Artium Baccalaureus, A.B. or B.A.) is usually an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or major that generally lasts for three, four, or in some cases and countries, five or six years. ... Chemical engineering is the branch of engineering that deals with the application of physical science, e. ... The City College of The City University of New York (known more commonly as City College of New York or simply City College, CCNY, or colloquially as City)[1] is a senior college of the City University of New York, in New York City. ... Doctor of Philosophy (from Greek , meaning Teacher of Philosophy), typically abbreviated Ph. ... The University of California, Berkeley (also known as UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, and by other names, see below) is the oldest and flagship campus of the ten-campus University of California system. ...

In 2006, he made a 26,000,000 USD donation to City College of New York, the largest donation ever made to that school. The United States dollar is the official currency of the United States. ... The City College of The City University of New York (known more commonly as City College of New York or simply City College, CCNY, or colloquially as City)[1] is a senior college of the City University of New York, in New York City. ...

Grove worked at Fairchild Semiconductor before becoming the fourth employee at the nascent Intel Corporation. He became Intel's president in 1979, its CEO in 1987, and its Chairman and CEO in 1997. He relinquished his CEO title in May 1998 and remained Chairman of the Board until November, 2004. Grove continues his work at Intel as a senior advisor. Fairchild Semiconductor introduced the first commercially available integrated circuit (although at almost the same time as one from Texas Instruments), and would go on to become one of the major players in the evolution of Silicon Valley in the 1960s. ... A Chief Executive Officer (CEO), or Chief Executive, is the highest-ranking corporate officer, administrator, corporate administrator, executive, or executive officer, in charge of total management of a corporation, company, organization or agency. ...

Grove and his wife Eva were married in 1958 and have two daughters.

Honors and achievements

• Time Magazine's Man of the Year (1997)
• Graduated at the head of the engineering class from the City College of New York in 1960.

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Quotes

• "When TV first came, people tried to look at it as a radio with pictures. We're at the stage now where the Internet is TV with poor connections." (August 2001)
• "A fundamental rule in technology says that whatever can be done will be done."
• "Only the paranoid will survive"

Books

Books Written by Andrew Grove

• A. S. Grove (1967). Physics and Technology of Semiconductor Devices. Wiley. ISBN 0471329983. 
• A. S. Grove (1988). One on One With Andy Grove. Penguin Putnam. ISBN 0140109358. 
• A. S. Grove (1995). High Output Management. Random House. ISBN 0679762884. 
• A. S. Grove (1996). Only the Paranoid Survive. Doubleday. ISBN 0385482582. 
• A. S. Grove (2001). Swimming Across: A Memoir. ISBN 0446679704. 
• Robert Burgelman and A. S. Grove (2001). Strategy Is Destiny: How Strategy-Making Shapes a Company's Future. ISBN 0684855542. 
• Robert A. Burgelman, Andrew S. Grove and Philip E. Meza (2005). Strategic Dynamics: Concepts and Cases. McGraw-Hill/Irwin. ISBN 0073122653. 

Books about Andrew Grove

• Tim Jackson (1998). Inside Intel: Andy Grove and the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Chip Company. Plume. ISBN 0452276438. 
• Richard Tedlow (2006). Andy Grove. Penguin. ISBN 9781591841395. 

External links

• Biography as given by Intel.com
• Biography at IEEE
• Book homepages - Swimming Across, High Output Management, Only the Paranoid Survive,

The Life and Times of an American

• TIME: Man of the year
• Interview with wired.com,