(C) Daily Kos This story was originally published by Daily Kos and is unaltered. . . . . . . . . . . Gordon Moore has passed [1] ['This Content Is Not Subject To Review Daily Kos Staff Prior To Publication.', 'Backgroundurl Avatar_Large', 'Nickname', 'Joined', 'Created_At', 'Story Count', 'N_Stories', 'Comment Count', 'N_Comments', 'Popular Tags'] Date: 2023-03-25 Gordon Moore has passed. Gordon E. Moore, a co-founder and former chairman of Intel Corporation, the California semiconductor chip maker that helped give Silicon Valley its name, achieving the kind of industrial dominance once held by the giant American railroad or steel companies of another age, died on Friday at his home in Hawaii. He was 94. His death was announced by Intel and the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. No cause was specified. Gordon along with his associates, changed the world forever. With out Gordon and a few other key early leaders in silicon technology.. the entire ecosystem of the internet, computers.. and Daily Kos would not exist. on a personal note. One of my first bosses in this business used to make sales calls with Gordon (many years before I worked with him). My old boss passed on to me things he learned from Gordon when they made sales calls together. way back when Intel was a start up and had less than 100 employees they used Manufacturer's Reps and Distributors to be able to reach the market as a relatively small company. My old boss was one of those. He was actually around when Intel had to pivot from memory chips (they were getting demolished by other low cost suppliers) to a focus on processors. My old boss was with the firm that represented Intel in those times. He was actually involved in getting Intel into the IBM account for the very first IBM made PC's. I am grateful for the coaching and tutoring from my old boss. And amazed that he got to do sales calls with Gordon and Andy at a key point in the early days of Intel. Money my old boss made as the Intel rep got enough to start his own firm. Years later that same firm gave me my first job in telecom/datacom. many of the principles I follow in my high tech career came from that time my old boss had with Gordon. RIP Gordon. [END] --- [1] Url: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/3/25/2160182/-Gordon-Moore-has-passed Published and (C) by Daily Kos Content appears here under this condition or license: Site content may be used for any purpose without permission unless otherwise specified. via Magical.Fish Gopher News Feeds: gopher://magical.fish/1/feeds/news/dailykos/