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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That invention sent computer performance on a rocket-like trajectory upward, its ascent governed by what became popularly known as Moore's Law, after Intel founder Gordon Moore who coined it.

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Intel co-founder Gordon Moore wrote that the fast, energy-efficient computer memory that Numonyx specializes in could become a reigning standard in IT in 1970.

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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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The new inductees included Gordon Moore, the co-founder of both Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel (and most famous for his Moore's Law, which predicted the rate of semiconductor progress), and Carver Mead, who did much of the work that made it possible to pack tens of thousands of transistors onto a single silicon chip.

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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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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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