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Computer Industry Pioneer Gordon Moore Named Cal
Alumni Association's Alumnus of the Year
Business Wire - January 16, 1998 13:33
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BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 16, 1998--The California Alumni Association
has named Intel co-founder Gordon Moore its Alumnus of the Year for 1997. Moore will be the
guest of honor at the Association's annual Charter Banquet, to be held on April 24, 1998 at the
Marriott Hotel in San Francisco. He also is the cover subject of the December issue of the UC
Berkeley alumni magazine, California Monthly. The Association's highest award, the "Alumnus
of the Year" designation was first given in 1943, to pioneer aviator Jimmy Doolittle. Other
recipients include Supreme Court chief justice Earl Warren, defense secretary Robert
McNamara, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, and author Joan Didion. Moore is the 55th UC
Berkeley graduate to win this distinction. Moore is credited with realizing the potential of the
integrated circuit and the microprocessor, the brains of nearly every computer on the planet.
Famous for coining "Moore's Law," he predicted 30 years ago that the number of transistors
on a silicon chip would double every two years -- and cost half as much. Moore received his
B.S. in chemistry from UC Berkeley in 1950, and earned a doctorate in physics and chemistry
from Cal Tech in 1954. After working for William Shockley, the co-inventor of the transistor,
Moore, Robert Noyce, and six others left to found Fairchild Semiconductor, the company that
helped develop the first integrated circuit. In 1968, Moore and Noyce founded Intel
Corporation. The company produced its first product, a bipolar memory chip, in 1969, and
turned its first profit in 1971. From then on, Intel pioneered one classic product after another,
from memory chips to microprocessors. Moore currently serves as Intel's chairman emeritus.
He also is a fellow of the National Academy of Engineering, sits on the board of Conservation
International, and is a director of Transamerica Corporation. He also has become increasingly
involved with UC Berkeley. In 1996, Moore and his wife Betty pledged $15 million to the
campus's New Materials Initiative, and they support Cal research at the Gump biological
station on Moorea, in French Polynesia.
William Rodarmor Alumni House, Berkeley CA 94720-7520 510/642-0760 fax: 510/642-6252
rodarmor@alumni.berkeley.edu
For California Monthly's cover story on Gordon Moore, see
alumni.berkeley.edu For Gordon Moore's
biography and photo at Intel, see intel.com
CONTACT: California Alumni Association
William Rodarmor, 510/642-0760 |
