Moore, Gordon oral history | Computer History Museum

Type

Text

Title

Moore, Gordon oral history

Contributor

Addison, Craig, Interviewer

Moore, Gordon, Interviewee

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Date

2008-01-25

Place of Publication

Mountain View, California

Extent

13 p.

Description

Gordon Moore, co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor, co-founder of Intel and Chairman Emeritus of the company talks about the evolution of manufacturing equipment from in-house development by semiconductor vendors to commercial suppliers specializing in specific technology areas including diffusion, epitaxy and photolithography. He discusses the impact of business cycles on both the device and equipment suppliers, on the early applications of integrated circuits, and on the unexpected durability of Moore's Law.

Subject

Fellow Awardee; semiconductor history; Moore, Gordon; Applied Materials; Canon; Diffusion; Electroglas; Fairchild Semiconductor; Flath, Eugene; Gallium; Integrated circuits; Intel; Knapic, Dean; Lasch, Art; Last, Jay; MicroMask; Microprocessors; Moore, Gordon; Moore's Law; NASA; Nikon; Noyce, Robert; photolithography; Roberts, Sheldon; SEMATECH; Semiconductor industry--California--Santa Clara County--History; Shockley, William; silicon

Collection Title

Oral Histories Online

Accession Number

102658233

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