The World Has Lost A Legend: Gordon Moore, A Founding Father of …

The world has lost one of the pioneers of the modern digital economy: Gordon Moore has died. After Shockley and his team invented the transistor at the Bell Lab, and Von Neumann posited a new computing architecture, a quintessential event happened when Jack Kilby (Texas Instruments) and Robert Noyce ( Intel) created the microprocessor. Moore co-founded Intel which became a forerunner in the personal computing industry.

While Bill Gates added “personal” to computing by making computers easier to use, through the creation of Windows, nothing would have happened if Intel microprocessors were not powering those clicks, cuts and pastes. Intel’s quest for innovation was unprecedented as it  pursued to validate and sustain a prediction Moore made in 1965: “A 1965 article by Mr.

Moore published in the trade journal Electronics predicted the pace of miniaturization in computer chips and anticipated the development of home computers, smart wristwatches, automatic controls for cars, and other inventions as electronic components etched on squares of silicon become smaller, faster and cheaper. Moore’s Law, as his prediction became known, proved a remarkably accurate observation about how quickly engineers would create advances in digital technology that have led to countless fixtures of modern life.”

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Moore completed his PhD in Caltech before he moved to the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for his postdoc.  In the semiconductor and microelectronics industry, Moore is a legend; he impacted us all, and was one of the founding fathers of Silicon Valley.

At Fasmicro, we send our condolences to Intel and Moore’s family. As Intel’s only certified and authorized field programmable microprocessor partner in Africa, Intel and Moore have advanced many domains of African technology space. Working with Intel, we have advanced critical infrastructures and supported national missions.

Moore was 94.

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