Gordon Moore, founder of Intel, the man behindMoore’s Lawwhich has become a driving force among makers of computers, phones and other electronic devices, died on Friday at the age of 94.
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said launch. “He was instrumental in revealing the power of transistors, inspiring technologists and entrepreneurs through the decades.”
In 1965, Moore predicted that as computer chip manufacturing improved, and components got smaller, the number of transistors on a chip would double each year—producing an exponential increase in performance and capabilities. A decade later, he revised the observation to every two years.
The Law has become an aspirational goal for tech companies and has set a pace of innovation that sustains progress well into the future.
“He invented the accelerator,” Genevieve Bell, a cultural anthropologist at Intel, told CNET in 2015. 50th Anniversary of Moore’s Law. “It gave us this amazing concept of continuous progression that is constantly changing.”
This means, among other things, that your pocket-sized phone is more powerful than the room-filling computers that used to be.
With chip components now shrunk down to atomic scales, some said Moore’s Law has run its course. Despite this, others maintain it will continueThanks to manufacturing innovations such as building chips that consist of not just one chip but multiple sheets of silicon.
Born in San Francisco in 1929, Moore later attended San Jose State University, the University of California, Berkeley, and Caltech, where he earned a Ph. D. in chemistry.
In 1957, he co-founded it Fairchild Semiconductor With Robert Noyce, among others, who helped invent the microchip, or integrated circuit, that is at the heart of computer chip design and paved the way for the iPhone and countless other gadgets. In 1968, the two founded Intel, which grew into the world’s largest chip maker, although they later relinquished that crown.
In later years, Moore moved into philanthropy. the Gordon and Betty Moore FoundationFoundation, which he founded with his wife, awards grants for efforts focused on environmental conservation, scientific research, and higher education.
In 1990, Moore was awarded the National Medal of Technology, and in 2002, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States’ highest civilian honor.
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