Gordon Moore

Gordon Earle Moore is an American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and chairman emeritus of Intel Corporation. He is also the author of Moore’s law. As of October 2019, Moore’s net worth is reported to be $10.6 billion.

• Silicon Valley pioneer Gordon Moore cofounded semiconductor firm Intel in 1968; he was CEO from 1975 to 1987 and chairman from 1979 to 1997.
• Prior to Intel, Moore was part of the “traitorous eight” that left Nobel Prize winner Bill Shockley’s firm to found Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957.
• Moore is famous for his prediction that computer processing power would double every year, an insight known as “Moore’s Law.”
• He and his wife launched the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in 2000. It has over $6 billion in assets.
• The foundation supports environmental conservation, patient care, scientific research and projects in the San Francisco Bay Area.