Gordon Earle Moore (January 3, 1929 – March 24, 2023) was an American businessman, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation.

He proposed Moore's law which makes the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years.

[14] He transferred to University of California, Berkeley in 1948, taking courses from Glenn Seaborg, Melvin Calvin, and William Giauque.

[16] Moore joined MIT and Caltech alumnus William Shockley at the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory division of Beckman Instruments, but left with the "traitorous eight," when Sherman Fairchild agreed to back them and created the influential Fairchild Semiconductor corporation.

He was asked by Electronics Magazine to predict what he thought might happen in the semiconductor components industry over the next ten years.

[26] Under Noyce, Moore, and later Andrew Grove, Intel pioneered new technologies for computer memory, integrated circuits, and microprocessor design.

[33][34][35] In 2001, Moore and his wife donated $600 million to Caltech, at the time the largest gift ever to an institution of higher education.

[44] In 1998, he was inducted as a Fellow of the Computer History Museum "for his fundamental early work in the design and production of semiconductor devices as co-founder of Fairchild and Intel".

[45] In 2001, Moore received the Othmer Gold Medal for outstanding contributions to progress in chemistry and science.

[46][47] Moore was also the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor, as of 2002.

[51] Moore was awarded the 2008 IEEE Medal of Honor for "pioneering technical roles in integrated-circuit processing, and leadership in the development of MOS memory, the microprocessor computer, and the semiconductor industry".

[52] Moore was featured in the 2011 documentary film Something Ventured, in which he said about Intel's first business plan, "It was one page, double spaced.

[62] Moore was an avid fisherman since childhood, and he traveled extensively with his wife, sons, or fellow colleagues to catch species such as bass, marlin, salmon, and trout.

"[67] The Intel CEO at the time, Pat Gelsinger remembered him as someone who, "defined the technology industry through his insight and vision.