1929- American chemist who advanced in 1965 what is now known as Moore's law. Moore's law states that the number of circuits that can be printed on computer chips (and therefore their processing power) will double every 18 months. This...

Gordon Earle Moore (b. January 3, 1929 in San Francisco, California) is the co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation and the author of Moore's Law (published in an article 19 April 1965 in Electronics Magazine). Moore was born in San...

An aura of enigma emerges from Gordon Moore's new paintings and works on paper, in which veils of paint produce a shifting sense of space, and lines function simultaneously as traces of structure, narrative and movement. There is no mystery, however, about Moore's...

Silicon Valley pioneer Gordon Moore is the cofounder of Intel, the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer. In 1965 he predicted that the speed of computer chips would double, or the prices would fall by half, every 18 months for the next decade. "Moore's Law"...

Intel Corp. plans to spend between $1 billion and $1.5 billion to overhaul its semiconductor production facility in New Mexico to manufacture computer chips with next-generation technology.The Rio Rancho factory is expected to begin producing 45-nanometer chips _ meaning they will have features as tiny...

Intel Corp. has designed a computer chip that promises to perform calculations as quickly an entire data center _ while consuming as much energy as a light bulb.The world's biggest chipmaker said Sunday it developed a programmable processor that can perform about a trillion calculations...