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Gordon Moore, co-founder and former chairman of Intel, died on Friday, March 24. He was 94. Tributes to the technology pioneer were shared on social media by Silicon Valley industry leaders over the weekend, including one from Apple CEO Tim Cook.

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"The world lost a giant in Gordon Moore, who was one of Silicon Valley's founding fathers and a true visionary who helped pave the way for the technological revolution," said Cook in a tweet. "All of us who followed owe him a debt of gratitude. May he rest in peace."
In 1965, Moore famously claimed that the capacity and complexity of computer chips would double every year (10 years later, he revised this prediction to a doubling every two years). His prediction regarding the exponential growth of computer chip technology, which held up for decades, became known as Moore's Law.


Moore and business partner Robert Noyce founded Intel, originally named Integrated Electronics, in 1968. The two advocated for the use of semiconductor chips to power a wealth of consumer electronics, and made laptop computers affordable for hundreds of millions of people. Moore eventually became chairman and CEO of the company in 1979, and served as CEO for eight years.

In 2005, Apple transitioned the CPUs of its Mac and Xserve computers from PowerPC to the x86 architecture from Intel. The partnership lasted for 15 years until Apple announced that it would shift its Mac line to Apple silicon in 2020.

Article Link: Tim Cook Pays Tribute to the Late Intel Co-Founder Gordon Moore
 
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Truly was a founding father of what we now enjoy.

I still remember the unbridled excitement of what the personal computer could do back early 1980s. Much of what we enjoy today is due to the work of Intel and Moore in the 1970s and 80s.

His passing brings remembrance of all that was good in the early computer era.
 
I didn’t know he was still alive…. He was a titan who had a profiund influence of our lives. RIP.
 
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Moore was a visionary leader who understood that to be successful one must never take anything for granted. Keep working tirelessly and never ever be content with today’s success, as it only takes a moment to loose your way and become tomorrow’s failure.

Unfortunately, many in Silicone Valley have forgotten this lesson.
It's a lesson most have failed to learn even outside Silicon Valley. Don't compete with others, compete against the better you.
 
Moore and business partner Robert Noyce founded Intel, originally named Integrated Electronics, in 1968. The two advocated for the use of semiconductor chips to power a wealth of consumer electronics, and made laptop computers affordable for hundreds of millions of people. Moore eventually became chairman and CEO of the company in 1979, and served as CEO for eight years.

In 2005, Apple transitioned the CPUs of its Mac and Xserve computers from PowerPC to the x86 architecture from Intel. The partnership lasted for 15 years until Apple announced that it would shift its Mac line to Apple silicon in 2020.
Truly the passing of a Silicon Valley visionary. May we all remember his contributions.
 
Gordon Moore, co-founder and former chairman of Intel, died on Friday, March 24. He was 94. Tributes to the technology pioneer were shared on social media by Silicon Valley industry leaders over the weekend, including one from Apple CEO Tim Cook.
Very few people on earth have benefited so many with their work.
 
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I worked for Intel for a number of years up to 2017 (during the Otellini - Krzanich period) and Moore and Robert Noyce were constantly referenced and referred to inside the company. I'm sure it's still the same, today. Internally, they were very, very truly respected for the work they did back in the 60s, 70s, and beyond. RIP Gordon Moore!
 
r.i.p. mr moore
he seemed like a good guy from an interview i saw of him years ago when he was ceo
his office was a cubicle like other enginners without fancy furniture
i remember the days back in the 90's doing contract work at intels's massive fabs that were like -
- catherdrals to silicon wafers
btw: stroke of genious naming the company intel "...Intel, originally named Integrated Electronics, in 1968..."
 
There is a great PBS American Experience documentary called Silicon Valley (not the tv series). It tells the story of the “8 traitors“ who left Shockley Transistor Company to form Fairchild Semiconductor and then later, Intel. Gordon Moore was one of them. It’s basically the founding of Silicon Valle. You can find it on iTunes.
 
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Mac Pro Gordon Moore Special Edition. Lived a good life if you make it to 94 and managed to make such a huge impact on the world. Ironic at the same time writing this on a Windows PC with an Intel processor inside.
 
Rest in peace. I got in to learning about semiconductors in the 1990s. A wild time. Massive innovation. Chips would come out and then 6 months later the successor would come out and render it obsolete. Moore’s Law was alive and well. Classy from Mr. Cook. Too bad intel went off the reservation meandering around and apple moved on ending the 15+ year partnership. But long live x86. And long live Moore’s Law. Rest in peace good sir.
 
I'm not the best of remembering every detail of what I read, but a couple of years ago I really enjoyed reading Walter Isaacson's The Innovators. It was fun reading about the stories behind the names long before Jobs and Gates and gave me a new appreciation for technology as a good invention for humanity.
 
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