Who is he?

Gordon Moore is an American co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's Law that published in an article April 19, 1965 in Electronics Magazine. Moore was born on January 3, 1929 in San Francisco. He received a B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1950 and a PhD in Chemistry and minor in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1954.

He is a director of Gilead Sciences Inc., a member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Engineers. Moore also serves on the board of trustees of the California Institute of Technology. He received the National Medal of Technology in 1990 and the Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, from George W. Bush in 2002.

What have he done?

Gordon Moore is the Co-Founded Intel and he suggests that integrated circuits would double in complexity every 18 months. This later becomes known as “Moore’s Law”, and is applied to microprocessor speed. “Moore's Law," in which he predicted that the number of transistors the industry would be able to place on a computer microchip would double every year.

In 1995, he updated his prediction to once every two years. While originally intended as a rule of thumb in 1965, it has become the guiding principle for the industry to deliver more powerful semiconductor chips at proportionate decreases in cost.