Gordon Moore
Co-founder and CEO, Intel
The observation the whole industry then had to keep true
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Domains
SemiconductorsProcess technologyForecasting
Scouting report
Wrote a short article for Electronics magazine in 1965 noting that the number of components on a chip had been doubling on a regular cadence and would keep doing so. Moore’s law was a market observation that turned into a roadmap the semiconductor industry then organised itself around, decade after decade. He was Intel’s CEO from 1975 to 1987, through the period that made the microprocessor the company’s business.
Curator’s note
The one forecast in tech that firms spent sixty years and trillions of dollars making come true.
Portrait
Painted from a photograph of Gordon Moore by Intel Free Press, licensed CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sources
- 01Gordon Moore en.wikipedia.org
- 02Moore’s law en.wikipedia.org