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Gordon Moo re

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Born January 3, 1929San Fran cisco, California, USA

Nationality Amer ican

A lma

mater

University of California, Berkeley;California Institute of Technology

Occupation Chairman Emeritus, Intel Corporation

Net worth $4 billion USD (2011) [1]

Gordon MooreFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Gor don Earle Moore (born January 3, 1929) is anAmerican businessman and co-founder and ChairmanEmeritus of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore' s Law(published in an article April 19, 1965 in Electron ics

agazine ).

Conte nts

1 Life and career 2 See also3 References4 External links

Life and career

Moore was born in San Francisco, California, but his familylived in nearby Pescadero where he grew up. He received aB.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of California,Berkeley in 1950 and a PhD in Chemistry and minor inPhysics fro m the Calif ornia Institute of Technology (Caltech)

in 1954. [2] Prior to study ing at Berkeley, he spent his freshma n and sophomore years at Sa n José State University,where he met his future wife Betty. Moore completed his post -doctoral work at the Johns H opkins UniversityApplied Physics Laboratory until 1956. [3]

He joined Caltech alumnus William Shockley at the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory di vision of BeckmanInstr uments, but left with the "traitorous eight", when Sherman Fairchild agreed to back them and created theinflue ntial Fairchild Semiconductor corporation.

In July 1968, Moore co-founded NM Electronics which later became Intel Corporation with Robert Noyce andserved as Executive Vice President until 1975 when he became President. In April 1979, Moore became Chairman

of the Board and Chief Executive Officer, holding that position until April 1987, when he became Chairman of theBoard. He was named Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation in 1997.

Moore has been a member of the Board of Directors of Gilead Sciences since 1996, after serving as a member of the company's Business Advisory Board from 1991 until 1996. [4] It has also been reported that Moore is a former Chairman and present Life Trustee of the California Institute of Technology, a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Engineering (UK). He is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor. In 1998 he wasinducted as a Fellow of the Computer History Museum.

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6. ^ IEEE Medal of Honor Recipients (http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/pr/mohpr.html)7. ^ Charlie Rose, November 14, 2005 (http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/657)8. ^ Rothberg et al., Nature, 2011. (http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v475/n7356/full/nature10242.html#/-post-

light-x27-sequencing-of-g-moore)

External links

The Fairchild Chronicles (http://www.stanford.edu/dept/news/pr/2005/pr-fairchild-030905.html)Gordon E. Moore Association by the Horatio Alger Foundation(http://www.horatioalger.org/members/member_info.cfm?memberid=MOO96)Betty and Gordon Moore Library (http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/BGML/)Childhood Home of Gordon Moore in Pescadero, CA (http://www.historicpescadero.com)Biography at Intel website (http://www.intel.com/pressroom/kits/bios/moore.htm)Forbes.com: Forbes World's Richest People (http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/10/2004/LIR.jhtml?

passListId=10&passYear=2004&passListType=Person&uniqueId=L6IX&datatype=Person)Moore says nanoelectronics face tough challenges(http://news.com.com/Moore+says+nanoelectronics+face+tough+challenges/2100-1006_3-5607422.html?tag=cd.top) – By Michael Kanellos, CNET News.com, March 9, 2005[1] (http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,67254,00.html) A Wired News articleInterview with Caltech News (http://pr.caltech.edu/periodicals/CaltechNews/articles/v36/moore.html)Dedication of Moore Labs at Caltech (http://pr.caltech.edu/media/moore_bldg.html)The Accidental Entrepreneur, (Gordon E. Moore): From Caltech to Intel(http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/articles/moore/index.html)

Business positions

Preceded byRobert Noyce

Intel CEO1975–1987

Succeeded by

AndrewGrove

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