Unfortunately, we ended last week with another sad note as another person in the history of computing and a GREAT DEAL of his role on modern technology, and we are talking about Intel co-founder Gordong Moore is no longer with us.

Intel confirmed early this weekend that Gordon Moore passed away at his home in Hawaii on March 24, 2023, at the age of 94.

Born on January 3, 1929, developed a fascination with science after receiving a chemistry kit as his 1940 Christmas gift and landing his PhD on Physics in 1954.

Two years later, he will be on a group of entrepreneurs that history labeled as the treacherous eight along with Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Jean Hoerni, Eugene Kleiner, Jay Last, Robert Noyce, and Sheldon Roberts, because how they left the company Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in 1957 to found Fairchild Semiconductor after businessman Sherman Fairchild agreed to fund the new company and allow the right to manage things on their side.

At the request of Electronics Magazine in 1965, he publicly forecasted that semiconductor components industry over the next ten years and basically in base of his observations, the number of components (transistors, resistors, diodes, or capacitors) in a dense integrated circuit had doubled approximately every year and speculated that it would continue to do so for at least the next ten years. 

In 1975, he revised the forecast rate to approximately every two years.

Carver Mead popularized the phrase "Moore's law". The prediction has become a target for miniaturization in the semiconductor industry and has had widespread impact in many areas of technological change.

By 1968, he and Robert Noyce founded NM Electronics, which later became Intel Corporation where he served as executive vice president until 1975 when he became president and by 1987 he became the chairman of the company.

Under his leadership along with Noyce and Andrew Groove, Intel has pioneered new technologies in the areas of computer memory, integrated circuits, and microprocessor design.

For the past 23 years, Gordon Moore has been active in philanthropy along with his wife Betty with the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, targeting environmental conservation, science, and the San Francisco Bay Area.

May he Rest In Peace!