- Born
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- Birth nameGordon Earl Moore
- Gordon Moore was born on January 3, 1929 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was an actor, known for Return to Ringworld (1994), Something Ventured (2011) and American Experience (1987). He was married to Betty Irene Whittaker. He died on March 24, 2023 in Hawaii, USA.
- SpouseBetty Irene Whittaker(September 9, 1950 - March 24, 2023) (his death, 2 children)
- ChildrenKenneth MooreStevens Moore
- ParentsWalter Harold MooreFlorence Almira "Mira" Williamson.
- Co-founder of Intel Corporation, one of the giants of the computer industry and the world's premier maker of silicon-based microchips. Moore served as Executive Vice President (1979-1987), President and Chief Executive Officer (1975-1979), and Chairman (1987-1995) of Intel.
- Moore published a 1965 article in Electronics magazine predicting that the power of microchip technology would double every year for the next decade. "Moore's Law" has turned out to be remarkably accurate, perhaps partly because it came to be seen as a goal for the designers and builders of computers.
- In 1990, President George Herbert Walker Bush presented Gordon Moore with the National Medal of Technology, which honors the country's greatest technical innovators.
- Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2009.
- In 2000 with his wife he established the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which has donated more than $5.1 billion to charitable causes.
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