Intel did yesterday known that the company’s former chief executive and chairman, Andy Grove, died yesterday – 79 years old. Grove was one of the truly leading figures in the world processor industry and was the first to be employed when Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore founded Intel in 1968.
Grove was born in Hungary in 1936 and was originally named András István Gróf. He emigrated to the United States around 1956 and changed his name to Andrew Stephen Grove. After studying chemical engineering at the City College of New York, he completed a doctorate at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1963. Shortly after, he was hired by Gordon Moore as a researcher at Fairchild Semiconductor.
386 and Pentium
According to Intel played Grove a critical role in when the company decide to pursue microprocessors instead of memory chips. He became president of the company in 1979 and CEO in 1987. During his reign, the company introduced some of processor models that formed the basis the large prevalence of PCs, include models 386 and Pentium.
In the same period, the company increased its annual turnover from 1.9 to 26 billion dollars.
Inspirator
– We are deeply saddened by the demise of the former Intel chairman and CEO Andy Grove says current CEO, Brian Krzanich, in a statement.
– Andy let the impossible happen, time and again, and inspired generations of technologists, entrepreneurs and business leaders.
Because of the disease left the Grove director chair in Intel in 1998. But has remained chairman until 2005 and then continued as a senior adviser in the company, while he was a lecturer at Stanford University .
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