Gordon Moore, one of the founders of US chipmaker Intel and a central figure in the history of Silicon Valley, has died at the age of 94.
Moore’s early insight that the cost of electronics would plunge, turning digital technology into a part of everyday life, made his name a byword for the rapid and seemingly inexorable advance of the semiconductor sector, and with it the wider tech industry.
As one of three executives who shaped and led the chipmaker over its first three decades, he was a key figure in a company that is often said to have “put the silicon into Silicon Valley”, and helped to forge a style of entrepreneurial management that did much to shape the culture of the modern US tech industry.