Moore died Friday at his home in Hawaii, according to Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel Corp., who set the leap in the pace of progress in the digital age with a simple 1965 prediction of how quickly engineers would make computer chips more efficient, has died. He was 94 years old.
In July 1968, Robert Noyce and Moore founded NM Electronics, which later became Intel Corporation. Moore served as executive vice president until 1975, when he became president. In April 1979, Moore became President and Chief Executive Officer, a position he held until April 1987, when he became President. In 1997 he was appointed President Emeritus. Under Noyce, Moore, and later Andrew Grove, Intel pioneered new technologies in computer memory, integrated circuits, and microprocessors. On April 11, 2022, Intel renamed its Oregon headquarters, the Ronler Acres campus in Hillsboro, Gordon Moore Park, and a building formerly known as RA4 as the Moore Center in honor of its founder.
In 2000, Moore and his wife established the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation with a gift valued at approximately $5 billion. Through the foundation, they initially focused on conservation, science, and the San Francisco Bay Area.
Moore has received numerous awards. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1976 for his contributions to semiconductor devices ranging from transistors to microprocessors.
In 1990, Moore received the National Medal of Technology and Innovation from President George H.W. Bush “for his outstanding leadership in introducing two major post-war innovations in microelectronics—the large-scale integrated memory scale and the microprocessor—that propelled the information revolution.”