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Gordon Moore is an American computer scientist, entrepreneur and philanthropist. He was a co-founder (with Robert Noyce) of Intel Corporation in 1968, and he served initially as the executive vice president of the company. He was chief executive officer (CEO) of Intel from 1975 to 1987. He has made important contributions to the semiconductor field and is famous for his articulation of Moore’s law in 1965. His initial formulation of the law predicted that the number of transistors that could be placed on a computer chip (i.e. the transistor density) would double every year. He revised his law in 1975 to state that the transistor density will double roughly every 2 years. His law has proved to be quite accurate, as the semiconductor industry has developed more and more powerful chips at lower costs.
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IBM initially used the Intel 8088 microprocessor for the PC.
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Moore G (1965) Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. Electronics Magazine, pp 114–117, April 19
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O’Regan, G. (2013). Gordon Moore. In: Giants of Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5340-5_42
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