The namesake of Moore's Law, which posits that computing power will double every 18 months (later updated to 2 years), Gordon Moore is a Silicon Valley legend.

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But they also included a foundation built on the fortune of the co-founder of Intel Corp. (the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation) and a non-profit created by Congress and expected to give away roughly a billion dollars by 2015, the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI).

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Noyce and Gordon Moore and people like Jobs and Gates made a fortune out of the stuff that he started.

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Moore's Law, named after Intel founder Gordon Moore, says the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years, creating ever-more-powerful and cheaper electronic devices.

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East's talk is a bit long on theory and short on practice as of today -- a Samsung Chromebook isn't going to make Gordon Moore have second thoughts -- but it's food for thought in an era where ARM is growing fast, and even Microsoft isn't convinced that speed rules everything.

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In fact, I call Andrew Grove, a Hungarian Jewish immigrant a founder of Intel along with his two partners, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore.

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Moore's Law, advanced by Gordon Moore, an Intel founder, says that the number of transistors on a chip doubles every two years, creating ever more powerful--and cheaper--electronic devices.

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Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore were the powerful pair who started Intel in 1968, but it was a trio who gave it the velocity to conquer the chip world.

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In 1984 he and Intel cofounder Gordon Moore decided to abandon the memory chip business that gave the company its start for what became a dizzyingly successful string of microprocessors.

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