Gordon Moore
Gordon Earle Moore (born January 3, 1929 in San Francisco ) is a co-founder of Intel and the author of Moore's law .
Life
Moore was born in San Francisco, California. He received a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1950 and a Ph.D. in chemistry and physics from the California Institute of Technology .
In July 1968 Moore founded together with Andy Grove and Robert Noyce what is now the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer Intel. The three engineers had previously left Fairchild Semiconductor , which Moore and Noyce had also co-founded in 1957. Moore was initially Executive Vice President at Intel until he became President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) in 1975 . In April 1979 Moore became Chairman of the Board and CEO. He held this position until April 1987, remained Chairman of the Board of Management until 1997 and has been Chairman Emeritus ever since . With a stake of 2.8% of the share capital, he is currently the second largest shareholder in Intel.
In 2000, together with his wife Betty, he founded the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation , which is committed to sustainable, measurable measures to promote environmental protection, science and the Bay of San Francisco Foundation capital of 6 billion US dollars has grown.
Moore's Law
In the journal Electronics on April 19, 1965 article Moores in which he appeared to today Moore's Law stated mentioned context of previous years. Using the data available from these years, he described a relationship between the time and the number of electronic components in an integrated circuit (each doubling in one year) and asked what if it continued like this for the next ten years. The law was later slightly corrected (today "doubling the processor performance every 18 months"), but is still largely in force today.
In the same article Moore also anticipated other developments in the chip industry, which were dismissed as science fiction by the experts at the time. For example, Moore considered that although the increasing number of transistors would lead to problems with heat development in the medium term, the greater integration density of the active semiconductors through layer technology on a chip would also reduce the conduction paths and thus the heat losses, which can lead to a compensation.
Honors
- 1976 election to the National Academy of Engineering
- 1978 W. Wallace McDowell Award
- 1990 recipient of the National Medal of Technology
- 1990 election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- 2002 gave US President George W. Bush Moore, the Medal of Freedom ( "The Presidential Medal of Freedom"), the highest civilian honor in the United States.
- In 2002 the asteroid (8013) Gordonmoore was named after him.
- 2005 elected member of the American Philosophical Society
- The library at the Center for Mathematical Sciences at Cambridge University is named after him and his wife Betty.
- For their financial support to the conservation organization Conservation International , the married couple Gordon and Betty Moore were honored in the species name of the Pernambuco pygmy owl ( Glaucidium mooreorum ), which was only described in 2002 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.moore.org/about/our-vision
- ↑ http://www.moore.org/about/financials
- ^ Member History: Gordon E. Moore. American Philosophical Society, accessed February 3, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moore, Gordon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moore, Gordon E .; Moore, Gordon Earle |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American entrepreneur, co-founder of Intel |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 3, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | San Francisco |