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Also Known As Gordon E. Moore
Born January 3, 1929 • San Francisco • California
Died March 24, 2023 (aged 94) • Waimea • Hawaii
Founder Fairchild Semiconductor • Intel
Subjects Of Study Moore’s law

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Robert Noyce (left) and Gordon Moore standing outside an Intel building.
Andrew Grove (left), Robert Noyce, and Gordon Moore standing together behind a table.
A line graph illustrating Moore's law, showing the exponential increase in the number of transistors on computer processors from 1970 to 2005, with key Intel processors labeled along the curve.
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