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ChimpBrisket t1_jdkovg9 wrote

R.I.P. I hope they put a Intel Inside sticker on his coffin.

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10kLines t1_jdkrnyf wrote

Uh oh, that means two Gordon Moores will die in 2025

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pobody t1_jdksg5z wrote

His inscription should be hlt.

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WAT0020 t1_jdl7hwr wrote

If Moore's law keeps going we will know that there is life after death

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diggduke t1_jdl7lzk wrote

Will his successor live to 188?

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cappz3 t1_jdld2xk wrote

Gonna take me a while to Process this

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DangoQueenFerris t1_jdlhhhw wrote

Replying to hwgod (#2,349,641)

Year old account that just started posting. Copying comments. It's a karma farming account. They let them sit and age before starting to farm karma so they don't get flagged as bots right away.

Edit: account immediately banned after being reported. Good job reddit.

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drawkbox t1_jdlyskx wrote

It isn't often one person or a group like the "Traitorous Eight". go on to make entire industries and new platforms. They did it though and that included Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce. Moore and Noyce later split from that and made NM Electronics which became Intel.

This was back when engineers/product people ran things and competition via skill not just funding was the driving force. Imagine a new company today fully controlled by the engineers/creatives/product people, it happens but not as often. We need to get back to that.

The Moore's Law is an interesting case study in creating a term/law that supersedes you and inspires your self interest but also the interest of the industry and innovation.The root of Moore's Law was making more products and cheaper, allowing more to use computing.

> Prior to establishing Intel, Moore and Noyce participated in the founding of Fairchild Semiconductor, where they played central roles in the first commercial production of diffused silicon transistors and later the world’s first commercially viable integrated circuits. The two had previously worked together under William Shockley, the co-inventor of the transistor and founder of Shockley Semiconductor, which was the first semiconductor company established in what would become Silicon Valley. Upon striking out on their own, Moore and Noyce hired future Intel CEO Andy Grove as the third employee, and the three of them built Intel into one of the world’s great companies. Together they became known as the “Intel Trinity,” and their legacy continues today.

> In addition to Moore’s seminal role in founding two of the world’s pioneering technology companies, he famously forecast in 1965 that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit would double every year – a prediction that came to be known as Moore’s Law.

> "All I was trying to do was get that message across, that by putting more and more stuff on a chip we were going to make all electronics cheaper," Moore said in a 2008 interview.

> With his 1965 prediction proven correct, in 1975 Moore revised his estimate to the doubling of transistors on an integrated circuit every two years for the next 10 years. Regardless, the idea of chip technology growing at an exponential rate, continually making electronics faster, smaller and cheaper, became the driving force behind the semiconductor industry and paved the way for the ubiquitous use of chips in millions of everyday products.

When he did become successful he also gave back.

Moore gave us more. Then when he made it he gave even more.

> During his lifetime, Moore also dedicated his focus and energy to philanthropy, particularly environmental conservation, science and patient care improvements. Along with his wife of 72 years, he established the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which has donated more than $5.1 billion to charitable causes since its founding in 2000.

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drawkbox t1_jdlyv42 wrote

Gordon Moore made Gordon Freeman possible.

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