Gordon Moore (original) (raw)
- Silicon Valley pioneer Gordon Moore cofounded semiconductor firm Intel in 1968. He died in March 2023 at age 94.
- A Caltech PhD in chemistry and physics, Moore was part of the "traitorous eight" that left Nobel Prize winner Bill Shockley's firm to found Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957.
- He cofounded Intel in 1968 and served as CEO from 1975 to 1987 and as chairman from 1979 to 1997.
- Moore famously predicted that computer processing power would double every two years, an insight known as "Moore's Law."
- He and his wife launched the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in 2000 to support environmental conservation, patient care, scientific research and projects in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Wealth History
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Personal Stats
Source of Wealth
Intel, Self Made
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Citizenship
United States
Children
2
Education
Doctorate, California Institute of Technology; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of California, Berkeley
Did you know
Moore and his wife joined the Giving Pledge in 2012, promising to donate half of their wealth to charitable causes.
In his first year as a student at U.C. Berkeley, Moore belonged to the Rocket Society and designed a rocket engine.