By BY HOLCOMB B. NOBLE AND KATIE HAFNER from NYT Technology
Gordon E. Moore, co-founder and former chairman of Intel Corporation, passed away on Friday at his home in Hawaii at the age of 94. Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced his death, but no cause was given. A
long with a few colleagues, Moore was instrumental in bringing laptop computers to millions of people and embedding microprocessors into a wide range of devices from toasters, bathroom scales, toy fire engines, and cellphones to cars and jets.
Although he had wanted to become a teacher, Moore became an “accidental entrepreneur” and made a fortune after investing $500 in the microchip industry, which turned into one of the world’s largest industries.
Moore is credited with having seen the future, and in 1965, he predicted that the number of transistors that could be placed on a silicon chip would double at regular intervals, known as Moore’s Law, thus exponentially increasing the data-processing power of computers.
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