Gordon E. Moore

Gordon Earle Moore ( San Francisco , January 3 1929 ) is an American entrepreneur and co-founder of Intel . He formulated the Law of Moore .

Moore was born in San Francisco , California . He earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry at the University of California - Berkeley in 1950 . He received his doctorate in chemistry and physics in 1954 at the California Institute of Technology .

He is one of the " Traitorous Eight ", the group in 1957, Fairchild Semiconductor founded.