Intel Chairman Emeritus Gordon Moore To Receive IEEE Founders Medal

PISCATAWAY, N.J., June 13, 1997 -- Gordon E. Moore, Chairman Emeritus of Intel Corporation, will be honored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc., the world's largest technical professional society, at its annual Honors Ceremony on June 28, 1997, in Cleveland.

Moore will receive the IEEE Founders Medal for his "world leadership in very large scale integration, and for pioneering contributions in integrated circuit technology." The award is sponsored by the IEEE Foundation. It includes a gold medal and a $10,000 honorarium.

Moore co-founded Intel in 1968 to develop and produce large-scale integrated products beginning with semiconductor memories. Under his leadership, Intel has produced a number of products based on LSI technology, including the world's first microprocessor.

His recognition of the trend that integrated circuit complexity was doubling every year -- and later, every 24 months as the technology evolved to very large-scale integration -- helped Intel become one of the world's major corporations. This trend became known as Moore's Law, one of the driving principles of the semiconductor industry.

In 1957 Moore co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation in Mountain View, Calif., and served as manager of the Engineering Department. Fairchild produced the first commercial integrated circuit after he became director of Research and Development in 1959. Early in his career, Moore worked on semiconductor process technology with William Shockley, co-inventor of the transistor. He joined the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory shortly after its founding in 1956, after serving on the technical staff of the Applied Physics Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University.

Moore holds a bachelor's degree in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley and a doctorate in chemistry and physics from the California Institute of Technology.

Among his numerous awards are the 1990 National Medal of Technology awarded by President George Bush, the Founders Award from the National Academy of Engineering, the ASM Medal for Advancement of Research from the American Society for Metals, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from Caltech, the AFIPS Harry Goode Award for Leadership in Science, and several IEEE honors, including the W.W. McDowell Award from the IEEE Computer Society, the IEEE Frederick Philips Award, the Computer Pioneer Medal and the IEEE John Fritz Medal.

Moore is a director of Transamerica Corporation, Gilead Sciences and Varian Associates, Inc. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the IEEE and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the California Institute of Technology.

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