Gordon Moore Obituary

Gordon Earle Moore was an American businessman, engineer, and Intel Corporation co-founder and emeritus chairman.

Gordon Moore died on March 24, 2023, at the age of 94. The announcement was made in a statement from Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The foundation reported he died peacefully surrounded by family at his home in Hawaii

Gordon Moore was born in San Francisco and raised in Pescadero, California. He spent two years at San José State University before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley, where he earned a B.S. in chemistry in 1950.

Moore enrolled at the California Institute of Technology in September 1950. Moore minored in physics at Caltech and earned a PhD in chemistry in 1954.

From 1953 to 1956, Moore worked as a postdoctoral researcher at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory. In July 1968, Moore and his long-time colleague Robert Noyce founded Intel.

He was executive vice president until 1975 when he was named president. Moore was appointed chairman of the board and CEO in 1979, positions he held until 1987 when he relinquished the CEO position but remained chairman.

Moore was appointed chairman emeritus in 1997 and retired in 2006. Moore also devoted his time and energy to philanthropy, specifically environmental conservation, science, and patient care enhancements.