Gordon Moore
Born	January 3, 1929 (1929-01-03) (age 78) San Francisco, California
Occupation	Retired / Chairman Emeritus, co-founder and former Chairman and CEO of Intel Corporation
Net worth	$3.7 billion USD (2006)

Gordon Earle Moore (b. January 3, 1929 in San Francisco, California) is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's Law (published in an article 19 April 1965 in Electronics Magazine). Image File history File links Gordon_Moore. ... is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... San Francisco redirects here. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Intel Corporation (NASDAQ: INTC, SEHK: 4335), founded in 1968 as Integrated Electronics Corporation, is an American multinational corporation that is best known for designing and manufacturing microprocessors and specialized integrated circuits. ... Image File history File links Red_Arrow_Down. ... is the 3rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... San Francisco redirects here. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Intel redirects here. ... Gordon Moores original graph from 1965 Growth of transistor counts for Intel processors (dots) and Moores Law (upper line=18 months; lower line=24 months) For the observation regarding information retrieval, see Mooers Law. ... is the 109th day of the year (110th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1965 Gregorian calendar. ... Electronics, an American trade journal published until 1995, was best known for publishing the April 19, 1965 article by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in which he outlined what came to be known as Moores Law. ...

Moore was born in San Francisco, California, but his family lived in nearby Pescadero where he grew up. He received a B.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1950 and a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Physics from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1954. Prior to studying at Berkeley, he spent his freshman and sophomore years at San José State University, where he met his future wife Betty. San Francisco redirects here. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Pescadero is a coastal community on the Pacific Ocean in the US state of California. ... B.S. redirects here. ... For other uses, see Chemistry (disambiguation). ... Sather tower (the Campanile) looking out over the San Francisco Bay and Mount Tamalpais. ... Doctor of Philosophy, abbreviated Ph. ... A magnet levitating above a high-temperature superconductor demonstrates the Meissner effect. ... The California Institute of Technology (commonly referred to as Caltech)[1] is a private, coeducational research university located in Pasadena, California, in the United States. ... San José State University, commonly shortened to San José State and SJSU, is the founding campus of what became the California State University system. ...

He joined Caltech alumnus William Shockley at the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory division of Beckman Instruments, but left with the "Traitorous Eight", when Sherman Fairchild agreed to back them and created the influential Fairchild Semiconductor corporation. William Bradford Shockley (February 13, 1910 – August 12, 1989) was a British-born American physicist and inventor. ... 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. ... Beckman Instruments,now known as Beckman Coulter Inc. ... The Traitorous Eight at Fairchild Semiconductor in 1959. ... Sherman Mills Fairchild (b. ... 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. ...

Moore set off his first boom in Silicon Valley two decades before pioneering the design of the integrated circuit. He co-founded Intel Corporation in July of 1968, serving as Executive Vice President until 1975 when he became President and Chief Executive Officer. In April 1979, Dr. Moore became Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, holding that position until April 1987, when he became Chairman of the Board. He was named Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation in 1997. For the Nintendo 64 game, see Space Station Silicon Valley. ... Intel redirects here. ... A vice president is an officer in government or business who is next in rank below a president. ...

In 2001, Moore and his wife donated $600 million to Caltech, the largest gift ever to an institution of higher education. He said that he wants the gift to be used to keep Caltech at the forefront of research and technology. Moore was chairman of Caltech's board of trustees from 1994 to 2000, and continues as a trustee today. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is an honor accorded to distinguished scientists and a category of membership in the AAAS. Fellows are elected annually by the AAAS Council for meritorious efforts to advance science or its applications. ... The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an organization that promotes cooperation between scientists, defends scientific freedom, encourages scientific responsibility and supports scientific education for the betterment of all humanity. ...

The library at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge is named after him and his wife Betty, as is the Moore Laboratories building (dedicated 1996) at Caltech. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world and has a reputation as one of the worlds most prestigious universities. ...

With his wife he endowed the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Established in September 2003, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation seeks to develop outcome-based projects that will improve the quality of life for future generations. ...

See also

• List of billionaires
• List of wealthiest foundations

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External links

• The Fairchild Chronicles
• Gordon E. Moore Association by the Horatio Alger Foundation
• Factors opposing the continuation of Moore's Law
• Betty and Gordon Moore Library
• Biography at Intel website
• Oral history – As part of the Stanford Silicon Valley Project
• Forbes.com: Forbes World's Richest People
• Moore says nanoelectronics face tough challenges – By Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com, 9 March 2005
• [1] A Wired News article
• Interview with Caltech News
• Dedication of Moore Labs at Caltech
• The Accidental Entrepreneur, (Gordon E. Moore): From Caltech to Intel