Gordon Earle Moore is an American businessman, co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation, and the author of Moore's law. As of January 2015, his net worth is $6.7 billion.
California Institute of Technology (1954), University of California, Berkeley (1950), San Jose State University
Nationality
United States of America
Spouse
Betty Moore (m. 1950)
Children
Steven Moore, Kenneth Moore
Nicknames
Gordon Earle Moore
Awards
National Medal of Technology and Innovation
Movies
Something Ventured
Star Sign
Capricorn
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Fact
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Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2009.
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In 1990, President George Herbert Walker Bush presented Gordon Moore with the National Medal of Technology, which honors the country's greatest technical innovators.
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Moore published a 1965 article in Electronics magazine predicting that the power of microchip technology would double every year for the next decade. "Moore's Law" has turned out to be remarkably accurate, perhaps partly because it came to be seen as a goal for the designers and builders of computers.
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Co-founder of Intel Corporation, one of the giants of the computer industry and the world's premier maker of silicon-based microchips. Moore served as Executive Vice President (1979-1987), President and Chief Executive Officer (1975-1979), and Chairman (1987-1995) of Intel.
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Children: sons Kenneth and Stevens.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Return to Ringworld
1994
Video Game voice
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
American Experience
2013
TV Series documentary
Himself - Chemist
Something Ventured
2011
Documentary
Himself
Charlie Rose
2005
TV Series
Himself
Silicon Valley: A 100 Year Renaissance
1998
TV Movie documentary
Himself
The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires