Gordon E. Moore earned a B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley and a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Physics from the California Institute of Technology.
Moore co-founded Intel in 1968, serving initially as Executive Vice President. He became President and Chief Executive Officer in 1975 and held that post until elected Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in 1979. He remained CEO until 1987 and was named Chairman Emeritus in 1997. He is currently Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation.
Moore is widely known for "Moore's Law," proposed in 1965, in which he predicted that the number of transistors the industry would be able to place on a computer chip would double every year. In 1995, he updated his prediction to once every two years. While originally intended as a rule of thumb, Moore's Law has become the guiding principle for the industry to deliver ever-more-powerful semiconductor chips at proportionate decreases in cost.
Moore is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the IEEE, Chairman of the California Institute of Technology Board of Trustees, and received the National Medal of Technology in 1990.
Information as of April 2002