- 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.
- He was a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Engineers, and a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
- He served as chairman of the board of trustees of the California Institute of Technology from 1995 until the beginning of 2001, and continued as a Life Trustee.
- Served as a member of the board of directors of Conservation International and Gilead Sciences, Inc.
- He started his research career at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Maryland. He returned to California in 1956 to join Shockley Semiconductor. In 1957 he co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor, a division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument, along with Robert Noyce and six other colleagues from Shockley Semiconductor. Eleven years later, Moore and Noyce co-founded Intel.
- Was educated at San Jose State University, the University of California at Berkeley, and the California Institute of Technology, where he was awarded a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1954.
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