When was Gordon Moore born and where did he grow up?
Gordon Earle Moore was born on the 3rd of January 1929 in San Mateo County, California. His family moved to Redwood City in 1938 when his father accepted a promotion to deputy sheriff.
Gordon Earle Moore was born on the 3rd of January 1929 in San Mateo County, California. His family moved to Redwood City in 1938 when his father accepted a promotion to deputy sheriff.
Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore founded NM Electronics in July 1968 which later became Intel Corporation. Moore served as executive vice president until 1975 before taking the role of president and eventually becoming chairman and chief executive officer in April 1979.
He published an article on the 19th of April 1965 stating component counts doubled approximately every year. In 1975 he revised his forecast rate to approximately every two years instead of annually.
In 2000 he and his wife established the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation with a gift worth about $5 billion. They donated $600 million to Caltech in 2001 and gave $200 million in December 2007 to build the Thirty Meter Telescope on Mauna Kea in Hawaii.
Moore died at his home in Waimea Hawaii on the 24th of March 2023 aged 94. He had been named chairman emeritus in 1997 after stepping down from active leadership roles.