1998 Fellow Awards Recipient
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For his fundamental early work in the design and production of semiconductor devices, co-founder Fairchild and Intel.
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Gordon Moore
Gordon Moore is the Co-Founder and Chairman of Intel Corporation. He worked with Robert Noyce at Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, and the pair eventually founded Fairchild Semiconductor. At Fairchild, Moore worked closely with Noyce, developing his research interest in extending the capabilities of transistors.Moore was able to implement Noyce's concepts to create "wireless clusters" of transistors, the basic idea of the "chip."
In 1968, Noyce and Moore founded Intel Corporation. He earned his Ph.D. degrees in chemistry and physics from Caltech.