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IT pioneer Gordon Moore dies at 94

Intel co-founder Gordon Moore in his office at the Robert Noyce Building in Santa Clara, California, in 2003, several years after he officially retired. (Intel Free Press via Wikimedia Commons)

SAN FRANCISCO: Intel Corp co-founder Gordon Moore, a pioneer in the semiconductor industry whose “Moore’s Law” predicted a steady rise in computing power for decades, died on Friday at the age of 94, the company announced.

He died surrounded by family at his home in Hawaii, according to Intel and the Moore family philanthropic foundation.

Co-launching Intel in 1968, Moore was the rolled-up-sleeves engineer within a triumvirate of technology luminaries that eventually put “Intel Inside” processors in more than 80% of the…

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