Moore's Law states that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) will double every two years with the cost of producing them also halving. It was introduced in 1965 and since 1975 this law is still intact until now. The incomplete Gordon Moore, the man who predicted Moore's Law because he died today at the age of 94.
Gordon Moore is the founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel which are two of the most important companies in the world semiconductor history. While at Intel he held positions as CEO and chairman before retiring in 2006.
What is interesting about the late Moore's career is that he was not actually an electronics engineer but actually a chemistry graduate from UC Berkeley and Caltech. His first job was to join the company established by William Shockley – the inventor of the transistor. While there he was involved in the development of cheap silicon transistors. After that he and Robery Noyce (also the founder of Intel) joined Fairchild Semiconductor which was a company that created integrated circuits.
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