Gordon Moore, founder of Intel and creator of Moore’s Law, has died at the age of 94

Silicon Valley titan Gordon Moore, co-founder of chip maker Intel and creator of Moore’s Law, has died at the age of 94.

Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced that Gordon Moore died peacefully Friday “surrounded by family at his home in Hawaii.”

Moore and his longtime colleague Robert Noyce founded Intel in July 1968.

Before founding Intel, Moore and Noyce co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor, where they played a key role in the first commercial production of distributed silicon transistors and later in the world’s first commercially viable integrated circuits.

At Intel, Moore initially served as vice president until 1975, when he became president.

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In 1979, Moore was appointed chairman of the board and CEO, a position he held until 1987, when he relinquished the position of CEO and continued as chairman. In 1997, Moore became chairman emeritus and stepped down in 2006.

During his life, Moore also devoted his attention and energy to philanthropy, particularly environmental protection, science, and improving patient care.

Together with his wife of 72 years, he founded the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which has donated more than $5.1 billion to charity since its inception in 2000.

“Those of us who have met and worked with Gordon will forever be inspired by his wisdom, humility and generosity,” said Harvey Fineberg, chairman of the foundation.

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said Gordon Moore was instrumental in unlocking the power of transistors and inspired technologists and entrepreneurs for decades.

“We at Intel are inspired by Moore’s Law and will continue to do so until the periodic table is exhausted,” he noted.

In addition to Moore’s significant role in founding two of the world’s pioneering technology companies, he predicted in 1965 that the number of integrated circuit transistors would double every year—a prediction that became known as Moore’s Law.

“I was just trying to get the message across that by putting more and more stuff on a chip, we’re going to make all electronics cheaper,” Moore said in a 2008 interview.

After his 1965 prediction proved correct, in 1975 Moore revised his estimate of a doubling of integrated circuit transistors every two years over the next 10 years.

“The idea of chip technology exploding to make electronics ever faster, smaller and cheaper nevertheless became a driving force behind the semiconductor industry, paving the way for every use of chips in millions of everyday products,” said the foundation.

In 2022, Gelsinger announced that it will name the Ronler Acres campus in Oregon—where Intel teams develop future process technologies—as Gordon Moore Park at Ronler Acres.

Gordon Moore was born in San Francisco in 1929. He was educated at San Jose State University, the University of California, Berkeley, and the California Institute of Technology, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1954.

He received the National Medal of Technology from then-President George H.W. Bush in 1990 and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, from then-President George W. Bush in 2002.

In 1950, Moore married Betty Irene Whitaker, who survives him. Moore also has sons Kenneth and Steven and four grandchildren.

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