ADVISORY/Photos of the 40th Anniversary of Moore's Law; Gordon E. Moore -- The Moore behind Moore's Law are Available On Business Wire's Web Site and AP PhotoExpress.
On left, Gordon Moore Gordon Earle Moore (b. January 3, 1929 in San Francisco, California) is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's Law (published in an article 19 April 1965 in Electronics Magazine). in 1965, aspiring engineer and budding entrepreneur, would become co-founder of Intel Corporation (company) Intel Corporation - A US microelectronics manufacturer. They produced the Intel 4004, Intel 8080, Intel 8086, Intel 80186, Intel 80286, Intel 80386, Intel 486 and Pentium microprocessor families as well as many other integrated circuits and personal computer networking and an engineering legend when he published an article in the April, 1965 issue of Electronics Magazine titled "Cramming More Components Onto Integrated Circuits" which later became known as Moore's Law "The number of transistors and resistors on a chip doubles every 18 months." By Intel co-founder Gordon Moore regarding the pace of semiconductor technology. He made this famous comment in 1965 when there were approximately 60 devices on a chip. . On right, Gordon Moore today, philanthropist, engineer and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation, a Fortune 50 company.
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