The co-founder and former chairman of Intel Corporation, Gordon Earl Moore, is dead. The “accidental entrepreneur” who invested only $500 to buy into Intel at its initial stage died at 94 in his Hawaiian home on Friday. Moore was known as the proponent of Moore’s Law when he predicted that microprocessors would revolutionize the computer world
In 1965, in what became known as Moore’s Law, he predicted that the number of transistors that could be placed on a silicon chip would double at regular intervals for the foreseeable future,
Gordon E. Moore, a co-founder and former chairman of Intel Corp., the California semiconductor chipmaker that helped give Silicon Valley its name, achievin..