Fireside Chat with Gordon Moore, Live at IDF: Part 2

23:17 | Rio Pesino | Sep 19th, 2007 12:21am |

Gordon E. Moore, Intel retired chairman and CEO (and chairman emeritus of the board) spoke with Moira Gunn onstage at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, in an interview that Intel called a “fireside chat.”

In this segment, find out whether or not you owe your workplace set-up to Moore and Intel (hint: you probably do). Also, was “Intel” ever the hame of a motel company in the Midwest?

The conversation covered a full career, from a time before semiconductors, when the very notion of integrated circuits was new — and controversial. Since then, of course, not only has Moore been on the winning side of the technology, but his name has become synomymous with the notion that the technology of the chip is on an aggressive development track — “Moore’s Law” has guided and challenged the chip industry for more than 30 years. (Asked if he regrets that name, he says, “I guess I don’t - now.”)

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