Intel Ceos

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Founders

Robert Noyce was Intel’s founder and original CEO. He was born on December 12, 1927. In 1949, he received a BA in physics from Grinnell College, and a PhD in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953. In 1957, Noyce co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor. In 1968, he joined with Gordon Moore to discover Intel after they both left Fairchild. The Santa Clara Headquarters has been named the Robert Noyce Building, to honor his achievements. In 1978, he was awarded the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Medal of Honor for his contribution to electronics. On June 3, 1990, Robert Noyce passed away from heart failure.

Gordon Moore is the co-founder of Intel. He was born on January 3, 1929. Moore spent his first two years of college at San Jose State University before receiving a BS degree in chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley in 1950. In 1954, he received a PhD in both chemistry and physics from California Institute of Technology. In 1965, he was known for his “Moore’s Law.” With this law, Moore predicted that the number of components the PC industry could place on a computer chip would double every year. After co-founding Intel in 1968, he served as the company’s Executive Vice President until 1975 when he took over as President and CEO. In 1975, Moore updated his earlier prediction that the number of components would increase once every to years. Between 1979 and 1987, he became Chairman of the Board of Directors. Between 1994 and 2000, Gordon Moore served as a chairman on Caltech’s board of trustees. In 2001, Moore and his wife made the largest donation in history to a university by donating $600 million to Caltech. In 2002, he received the nation’s highest civilian medal, The Medal of Freedom, from President George Bush. In 2003, he was elected a Fellow of the AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science); this is the world’s largest general scientific society. Moore is now