Gordon Moore
Gordon Earle Moore ( born January 3, 1929 in San Francisco) is co-founder of Intel and author of Moore's Law.
Life
Moore was born in San Francisco in California. He received a bachelor's degree in 1950 in chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley in 1954 and a Ph.D. in chemistry and physics at the California Institute of Technology.
Moore founded in July 1968 along with Andy Grove and Robert Noyce today the world's largest semiconductor maker Intel. For the three engineers had previously left the company Fairchild Semiconductor, which Moore also co-founded in 1957. Moore was first executive vice president until he was 1975 President and Chief Executive Officer ( CEO). In April 1979 Moore became Chairman of the Board and CEO. He retained this position until April 1987, but remained until 1997 Chairman of the Board and has been Chairman Emeritus. However, it is with a share of 2.8% is currently the second largest shareholder of Intel.
In 2000 he founded together with his wife Betty, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which is dedicated to sustainable, measurable actions to promote environmental protection, science and the Bay of San Francisco and the subsequent to a considerable standard equipment by the founders now on a endowment of 6 billion U.S. dollars has grown.
Moore's Law
In the journal Electronics appeared on April 19, 1965 Article Moore, in which he stated today Moore's Law mentioned context of previous years. He described based on the data of these years a relationship between the time and the number of the electronic components of an integrated circuit ( one each doubling in a year) and asked the question, what if it were to continue for the next ten years to come. The law was revised slightly later ( today: " doubling of processing power every 24 months "), but essentially applies to this day.
In the same article, Moore also took other developments in the chip industry anticipated, which were dismissed by the then art as science fiction. For example, Moore thought that the increasing transistor density in the medium leads to problems with the heat. Nowadays employs chip manufacturers such as Intel, among others, this exact problem.