Gordon Earle Moore was an American billionaire businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation best known for coming up with Moore’s Law, which charted a course for the age of high tech. Moore attended present day San José State University, he did his undergraduate studies at the University of California and earned his doctoral degree in chemistry at Caltech. After graduating he joined MIT and Caltech alumnus William Shockley at the Shockley Semiconductor Lab... moreGordon Earle Moore was an American billionaire businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation best known for coming up with Moore’s Law, which charted a course for the age of high tech. Moore attended present day San José State University, he did his undergraduate studies at the University of California and earned his doctoral degree in chemistry at Caltech. After graduating he joined MIT and Caltech alumnus William Shockley at the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory. In 1965 he predicted Moore's law, predicting the number of transistors that could be placed on a silicon chip would double at regular intervals for the foreseeable future, thus increasing the data-processing power of computers exponentially. He founded Moore founded NM Electronics, present day Intel Corporation with Robert Noyce in 1968. Moore was also a philanthropist, In 2001, he and his wife created the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation with a donation of 175 million Intel shares. In 2001, they donated $600 million to the California Institute of Technology. He won numerous awards throughout his career including the National Medal of Technology and Innovation by President George H. W. Bush. He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame and was regarded among the boldest and most creative technicians of the high-tech age.
