Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel Corp. INTC who helped accelerate the digitization of everyday life, died on Friday at his home in Hawaii, according to a statement on the company’s website. He was 94. He died peacefully surrounded by family, according to the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Further information on a cause was not immediately available. Moore and his colleague Robert Noyce founded Intel in 1968, helping to hasten a decades-long evolution of the chip and computer industries into the modern digital age. Known for Moore’s Law — or his theory, hatched in the 1960s, that the number of transistors in a chip would roughly double every two years — Moore served a variety of executive roles at the chip maker, and retired from the company in 2006. In 2000, he and his wife established the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation in 2000. He is survived by his wife, Betty, and sons Kenneth and Steven and four grandchildren. “Gordon Moore defined the technology industry through his insight and vision,” Chief Executive Pat Gelsinger said in the statement. “He was instrumental in revealing the power of transistors, and inspired technologists and entrepreneurs across the decades.”
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