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   Gordon E. Moore, 1929-2023   
   By The Editorial Board, March 26, 2023, WSJ   
      
   The last half of the 20th century was an era of American business invention   
   and economic leadership, and one of the men who defined that era and launched   
   the digital economy was Gordon E. Moore. The co-founder of Intel Corp. died   
   Friday at age 94.   
      
   Moore was present at the creation of the locus of innovation in northern   
   California that became known as Silicon Valley. After studying at UC Berkeley   
   and Cal Tech and a stint at Johns Hopkins studying solid rocket propellant, he   
   moved to California to    
   work on the nascent technology of transistors in William Shockley’s   
   semiconductor laboratory.   
      
   He soon left with others to join what became Fairchild Semiconductor, the   
   company that spawned dozens of startups and from which the Valley grew. In   
   1968 Moore and the legendary Robert Noyce, co-inventor of the integrated   
   circuit, founded Intel, which    
   married technology with precision design and engineering to become world   
   leader in memory chips.   
      
   Moore became president in 1975 and CEO in 1979 until 1987 and remained as   
   chairman until 1997. As competitors rose in Asia, Intel leapt ahead again in   
   the 1980s and 1990s by innovating on advanced microprocessors.   
      
   Moore is most famous as the author of Moore’s Law, which posited that the   
   number of transistors per silicon chip doubles every year. He later changed   
   that to every two years, but the law has held with remarkable durability   
   despite the difficulty of    
   crowding transistors ever more closely together. This has made it possible to   
   put far more computing power in the hands of the average person than was   
   imagined at the dawn of the computer age.   
      
   It’s a sign of America’s relative economic decline that Intel is one of   
   the firms that lobbied for subsidies in last year’s Chips Act. But that   
   shouldn’t obscure the accomplishments of Noyce, Moore, later Intel CEO   
   Andrew Grove, and others who    
   made possible the advances that transformed the world economy and contributed   
   to the greatest and most broadly based prosperity in human history.   
      
   Moore’s life and career are a reminder of a golden age in U.S.   
   entrepreneurship. The challenge of our era is rediscovering the educational   
   standards and freedom that helped to make his achievements possible.   
      
   https://www.wsj.com/articles/gordon-e-moore-1929-2023-golden-age   
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