Gordon Moore

Person in history

Gordon Moore

Gordon Moore, American businessman, engineer and co-founder of Intel Corporation (born 1929)

Life at a glance

Died
2023 · March 24

Their story

Who they were

Gordon Earle Moore was an American businessman, scientist, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation. He proposed Moore's law, which makes the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years.

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Gordon Moore appears on our March 24 calendar for 2023 as a death entry.

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March 24 2023.

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