Co-founder Gordon Moore of chipmaker Intel passed away on Friday at the age of 94. The American is best known for Moore’s Law, his prediction regarding the computing power of computer chips.
Moore predicted in 1965 that the number of transistors on a chip would double every year. Ten years later he adjusted his forecast and predicted a doubling every two years. Moore’s law motivated tech companies like Intel to achieve that doubling every two years.
Moore’s prediction is still a guiding principle in the tech world. How long the ‘law’ will last has become a point of discussion among experts in recent years.
In the last decades of his life, Moore was mainly concerned with philanthropy. The tech pioneer, whose net worth was estimated at $ 7.2 billion this year (nearly $ 6.7 billion), and his wife founded the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.
The foundation focuses on promoting science, conservation of nature, patient care and the preservation of the cultural heritage of the Bay Area, the area around the city of San Francisco and the Silicon Valley tech region.
