[Technology] Gordon Moore - RIP

[Is it PotG?]

The Intel co-founder and microchip pioneer has sadly died aged 94.

Mr Moore predicted the growth of computing power two decades before the PC revolution and 40 years before the launch of Apple and the iPhone.

 

[Seagull58]

The originator of Moore's Law

 

[Seagull58]

The Intel co-founder and microchip pioneer has sadly died aged 94.

Mr Moore predicted the growth of computing power two decades before the PC revolution and 40 years before the launch of Apple and the iPhone.

In contrast to:-
n the early 1940s, IBM's president, Thomas J Watson, reputedly said: "I think there is a world market for about five computers." Watson's legendary misjudgment did not prove fatal to his company.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

The Intel co-founder and microchip pioneer has sadly died aged 94.

Mr Moore predicted the growth of computing power two decades before the PC revolution and 40 years before the launch of Apple and the iPhone.

A real life Mystic Meg then.

R.I.P.

 

[WATFORD zero]

In contrast to:-
n the early 1940s, IBM's president, Thomas J Watson, reputedly said: "I think there is a world market for about five computers." Watson's legendary misjudgment did not prove fatal to his company.

I think that was how many mainframes were in Sussex when I trained as a programmer many many years ago

 

[Goldstone1976]

The Intel co-founder and microchip pioneer has sadly died aged 94.

Mr Moore predicted the growth of computing power two decades before the PC revolution and 40 years before the launch of Apple and the iPhone.

In the ‘60s he also predicted autonomous vehicles and mobile phones…

 

[OzMike]

I visit these threads now just to see who these people are.

 

[Cowfold Seagull]

I visit these threads now just to see who these people are.

You and me both Mike.

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

In contrast to:-
n the early 1940s, IBM's president, Thomas J Watson, reputedly said: "I think there is a world market for about five computers." Watson's legendary misjudgment did not prove fatal to his company.

Wasn’t it IBM (I’ve Been Moved) who in the 70s or 80s put all their efforts in to mainframes and rubbished the concept of the Personal Computer.

Their European Research HQ is just up the road from us at Hursley.

 

[South Oz Seagull]

This has to be one of the more obscure RIP threads but anyway, RIP Gordon.

 

[Seagull58]

Wasn’t it IBM (I’ve Been Moved) who in the 70s or 80s put all their efforts in to mainframes and rubbished the concept of the Personal Computer.

Their European Research HQ is just up the road from us at Hursley.

They developed the IBM PC under protest but gave Microsoft the rights to the ms-dos operating system that they bought from them for $50k., because they thought the value was all in the hardware. IBM lost about $300 million on PCs whereas MS made hundreds of billions.