Title:
Oral History of Gordon Moore

Date:
2008-01-25

Pages:
13 p.

Interviewer:
Addison, Craig; interviewer
Moore, Gordon; interviewee

Abstract:
Gordon Moore, co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor, co-founder of Intel and Chairman Emeritus of the company talks about the evolution of manufacturing equipment from in-house development by semiconductor vendors to commercial suppliers specializing in specific technology areas including diffusion, epitaxy and photolithography. He discusses the impact of business cycles on both the device and equipment suppliers, on the early applications of integrated circuits, and on the unexpected durability of Moore's Law.

Keywords:
Moore, Gordon
Applied Materials
Canon
diffusion
Electroglas
Fairchild Semiconductor
Flath, Eugene
Gallium
Integrated circuits
Intel
Knapic, Dean
Lasch, Art
Last, Jay
MicroMask
Microprocessors
Moore, Gordon
Moore's Law
NASA
Nikon
Noyce, Bob
photolithography
Roberts, Sheldon
SEMATECH
semiconductor
Shockley, William
silicon

Rights:
Computer History Museum

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