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Gordon Moore
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American businessman, co-founder of Intel Corporation (1929–2023)
Gordon Moore was an American businessman who co-founded Intel Corporation, one of the world's most important computer chip manufacturers. He is also famous for observing a pattern in semiconductor technology—known as Moore's Law—which predicted that the number of transistors on a chip would double roughly every two years, a trend that shaped the computer industry for decades.
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Film & TV
San Francisco, California, USA
Known for
- Silicon Valley — Self2013
- Podfather — Self2009
- Transistorized! — Self1998
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- Family name
- Moore
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- San Francisco
- Place of death
- Waimea
- Occupation
- physicist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Intel
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- date of birth
- 1929-01-03
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- member of
- National Academy of Engineering
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- www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102739933
- birth name
- Gordon Earle Moore
- net worth
- 9700000000
- date of death
- 2023-03-24
- name in native language
- Gordon Moore
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Encyclopedic overview
Gordon Earle Moore (January 3, 1929 – March 24, 2023) was an American businessman, scientist, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation. He proposed Moore's law, which makes the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years.
Early life and education
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