It’s been awhile since hearing it bandied about, and I suspect the rate is finally beginning to slow, but back at the dawn of the digital age, Gordon Moore saw and understood a profound truth that energized the high tech industry for fifty years.
In 1968, Moore and Robert Noyce, one of the eight engineers who left Shockley, again struck out on their own. With $500,000 of their own money and the backing of venture capitalist Arthur Rock, they founded Intel, a name based on joining the words “integrated” and “electronics.”
