The famed Silicon Valley pioneer devoted his later years to philanthropy.
Gordon Earle Moore, who became a legendary Silicon Valley figure by cofounding microchip makers Intel and Fairchild Semiconductor and for formulating his famous law about the inevitable advances to come from chip technology, died Friday. He was 94.
His inquisitiveness for science grew and he went on to earn a doctorate in chemistry and physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1954. But his classes didn’t include business training and he came out of college with little idea how to run a company, much less start one. Although Lawrence Livermore Laboratory offered him work, he turned them down, not wanting to get involved its nuclear-blast studies. Then, Nobel Prize winner William Shockley who had helped invent the transistor and learned of Moore through the lab, convinced him in 1956 to join Shockley’s Mountain View startup, which was developing inexpensive silicon transistors.
With an investment of less than $3 million and a single-page business plan, the pair started NM Electronics in Mountain View, renamed Intel that year and later headquartered in Santa Clara. Initially published in a 1965 Electronics Magazine article — in which he mused that “integrated circuits will lead to such wonders as home computers … automatic controls for automobiles and personal portable communications equipment” — it forecast that the number of tiny transistors squeezed onto chips would roughly double every year. In 1975, he changed that to every two years, a revision that generally has proven prophetic.
While Moore’s peers praised him for possessing a rare combination of talent in both businesses and science, he was persistently self-effacing. Asked by this newspaper to comment on his place in history, he replied, “I was lucky enough to be at the beginning of a major industry at a time when what I knew was useful.
The natural world was an obsession for Moore, a Republican who over his lifetime became increasing disheartened by civilization’s relentless intrusion into once-pristine places. He was particularly alarmed by what he and his wife saw during their many fishing trips outside of the U.S. But he also grew dismayed at the loss of the Bay Area’s once-vast agricultural areas.
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