Gordon Moore, the co-founder of computer chip maker Intel, has announced his retirement from the company's board.
Moore, a former Intel CEO, is credited with creating "Moore's Law" in 1965. That rule of thumb stated that the number of transistors that can be etched onto a computer chip will double each year.
Transistor count is the benchmark for computer chip power, and Moore's law correctly tracked the power of, and decline in price, of computer chips over the years.
He revised his namesake rule in 1995 to state that the transistor count would double once every two years.
Moore became CEO of Intel in 1975, and ran the company until 1987. He was titled chairman emeritus in 1997.
Intel was founded by Moore and Robert Noyce on July 18, 1968. Noyce died of a heart attack in 1990. AFP