Moore set the breakneck pace of progress in the digital age with a simple 1965 prediction of how quickly engineers would boost computer chip capacity.
SAN FRANCISCO — Gordon Moore, the Intel Corp. co-founder who set the breakneck pace of progress in the digital age with a simple 1965 prediction of how quickly engineers would boost the capacity of computer chips, has died. He was 94.
Strictly speaking, Moore’s observation referred to the doubling of transistors on a semiconductor. But over the years, it has been applied to hard drives, computer monitors and other electronic devices, holding that roughly every 18 months a new generation of products makes their predecessors obsolete.“It’s the human spirit.
Moore was born in California in 1929. As a boy, he took a liking to chemistry sets. After getting his Ph.D. from the California University of Technology in 1954, he worked briefly as a researcher at Johns Hopkins University. Fairchild supplied the chips that went into the first computers that astronauts used aboard spacecraft.
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