Gordon Moore

$7.8B

as of 04/07/23

About Gordon Moore

Silicon Valley pioneer Gordon Moore cofounded semiconductor firm Intel in 1968. He died in March 2023 at age 94.

A Caltech PhD in chemistry and physics, Moore was part of the "traitorous eight" that left Nobel Prize winner Bill Shockley's firm to found Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957.

He cofounded Intel in 1968 and served as CEO from 1975 to 1987 and as chairman from 1979 to 1997.

Moore famously predicted that computer processing power would double every two years, an insight known as "Moore's Law."

He and his wife launched the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in 2000 to support environmental conservation, patient care, scientific research and projects in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Personal stats

Citizenship

United States of America

Source of wealth

Intel

Birth date

01/03/29

Number of children

Education

Doctorate, California Institute of Technology; Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of California, Berkeley

Self-made

self-made

Gordon Moore’s fortune is worth

130K

troy ounces of gold

120K

median U.S. household

78K

median U.S. income

0.156%

U.S. credit card volume

0.031%

GDP of the United States

0.023%

United States debt

Net worth history

Annual ranking

Did you know?

Moore and his wife joined the Giving Pledge in 2012, promising to donate half of their wealth to charitable causes.