Biography | Gordon Moore — The President Who Ran Intel From a Cubicle in This Building

Intel's first rented rooms were on East Middlefield Road in Mountain View. The job that made Moore the company's chief executive sat later, in Santa Clara, in a cubicle. He and Robert Noyce incorporated Intel in July 1968. Moore served as executive vice president from the start. In 1975 he became president and chief executive officer. Caltech's alumni record and the IEEE Computer Pioneers entry agree on that year. In 1979 he added the chairman's title and remained chief executive until 1987. He stayed on the board as chairman, then chairman emeritus. A 1990s San Jose Mercury News visit found his office on the second floor of the Robert Noyce Building at 2200 Mission College Boulevard. It was a cubicle, like the others, with one exception: a round wooden table he had moved from office to cubicle to cubicle. The Intel Museum occupies the same building. It opened to the public on 13 February 1992 and later added a Moore's Law exhibit among the wafers and process models. Wikipedia publishes the museum at 37.38750, -121.96361. Admission is free on weekdays. What a visitor can stand in is the headquarters campus of the years when Moore was no longer the research director writing magazine essays. He was the executive who had to keep the doubling schedule funded, staffed, and shipped. The first office is a different pin. This one is where the title caught up with the chemist. Photo: Intel Free Press, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Gordon Moore in 1978, during the years he was chairman and chief executive.