Title:
1981 Gordon Moore Informal Portrait
Creator:
Intel Corporation
Subject:
Electronic industries; Intel innovators; Moore, Gordon E., 1929-; People;
Portraits; Santa Clara (Calif.); Santa Clara County (Calif.)--History; Technology;
Description:
Black-and-white portrait of Gordon Moore in 1981. Gordon E. Moore is
currently Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation. Moore co-founded Intel in 1968,
serving initially as Executive Vice President. He became President and Chief Executive
Officer in 1975 and held that post until elected Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in
1979. He remained CEO until 1987 and was named Chairman Emeritus in 1997. Moore is
widely known for "Moore's Law," in which he predicted that the number
of transistors the industry would be able to place on a computer chip would double every
couple of years. 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 ever-more-powerful semiconductor chips at proportionate
decreases in cost.
Publisher:
Intel Museum Archives
Contributor:
Intel Founders
Date:
1981 1981
Type:
Photograph
Format:
25 x 20 cm.
Identifier:
cstcli 1998.1959-260770
Source:
lcsh, local, lcnaf, tgm I
Language:
eng
Relation:
Silicon Valley History Online
Coverage:
ark:/13030/kt467nc5jt
Rights:
Copyright ©Intel Corporation 1981. All Rights Reserved. Transmission and
reproduction of a single copy of this work for non-commercial use in research or
teaching in the United States is permitted if Intel is credited as the source of the
work. The work must remain intact, as a complete whole and may not be combined with any
other image or work to create a new document. Copyright ©Intel Corporation 1981. All
Rights Reserved. Transmission and reproduction of a single copy of this work for
non-commercial use in research or teaching in the United States is permitted if Intel is
credited as the source of the work. The work must remain intact, as a complete whole and
may not be combined with any other image or work to create a new document.