Intel Co-Founder Gordon Moore Passes Away at 94

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Intel Co-Founder Gordon Moore Passes Away at 94
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Gordon E. Moore, co-founder and former chairman of Intel Corporation, has died at the age of 94. Moore was a key figure in the development of the microchip industry and is best known for his prediction in 1965, known as Moore's Law, that the number of transistors on a silicon chip would double at regular intervals, thus increasing the data-processing power of computers exponentially. He was also a major figure in philanthropy, having created the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation with his wife in 2001.

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