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American semiconductor executive who was recruited from Motorola to lead Fairchild Semiconductor in 1968 — at the enormous salary of $1M, shocking the industry — a hire that destabilized Fairchild just as Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore were preparing to leave to found Intel.
American chemist and co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel — and author of Moore's Law (1965), the observation that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years — making him the scientist whose observation became the most important technology roadmap in history.