Intel has just announced through an official communication that Gordon Moore passed away on Friday 24th March. Gordon Moore was the founder in 1968 of the company Moore-Noyce Electronics, a name that from the beginning seemed a bit bland to them. After long deliberations, they decided to rename the company Intel. They were soon joined by the third co-founder Andrew Grove. But the name Moore is also associated with Moore’s Law which he outlined in 1965. This stated that the complexity of integrated circuits was doubling steadily. At first Moore spoke of a doubling every 12 months, but from 1975 onwards he adjusted his predictions for the next ten years to 24 months. A ‘prediction’ that proved to be correct for many years. It can even be said that after the laborious 14nm period (++++*), Intel took up this logic.
Returning to his time at Intel, Moore first served as the company’s executive vice president before becoming president in 1975 and CEO in 1979. During this time, Intel was the world’s largest chipmaker. In 1987 he became chairman, a role he held as chairman emeritus until 2006, when he was 77.
