Intel co-founder and former CEO Gordon Moore has died at the age of 94.

Moore was the last surviving member of Intel Trinity, which also included fellow founding member Robert Noyce and first appointee Andy Grove.

Moore and Noyce worked with transistor co-inventor William Shockley before helping to launch the Fairchild semiconductor company.

In 1968, the two went on their own and founded NM Electronics, which later became Intel.

A few years earlier, in 1965, Moore had written a paper exploring the miniaturization of computers. To be precise, he predicted that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit would double every year, resulting in smaller, more powerful microcircuits that would drive technology forward.

He called his predictions “Moore’s Law” and they have been accurate ever since. By 1975, he was revisiting his estimate, doubling the number of transistors every two years, although major chip manufacturers now disagree as to whether Moore’s Law still applies today.

In 1979, Moore was named chairman and CEO of Intel Corporation before leaving that position in 1987. Apparently, he acted as an intermediary between Noyce and Grove, and he and Grove made decisions that underpinned the company’s operations. on microprocessors, and not continue their work in the field of memory.

By many estimates, the cost of the transistor has dropped hundreds of millions of times since the early 1960s.

This development allowed the widespread dissemination of computing and electronic technologies, first through personal computers, then various devices, up to the mobile phone.

“The world has lost a giant with the passing of Gordon Moore, one of the founders of Silicon Valley and a true visionary who paved the way for the technological revolution,” Apple CEO Tim Cook tweeted.

Experts expect that Moore’s law will soon cease to operate due to physical limitations associated with the integration of transistors in a microprocessor.

Before Moore completely stepped down from his positions at Intel in 2006, he and his wife founded the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation with $5 billion in funding.

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