A cikin masana'antar fasaha akwai sabani, mafi shahara karamin hali shine gudunmawarsa. Jiya, 24 ga Maris, Gordon Moore ya mutu, daya daga cikin majagaba na microprocessors kuma tabbas kadan ne suka san wanda muke magana akai.
An san shi musamman ga dokar da ke ɗauke da sunansa, wacce ta yi hasashen yadda ƙarfin semiconductor zai girma, gudummawar sa ba ta iyakance ga wannan ba.
Gordon Moore ya mutu
A cikin jerin labaran mu kan dakunan gwaje-gwaje na Bell mun bayyana yadda neman mafi dorewa da ingantattun kayan fiye da bututun iska ya haifar da ƙirƙirar transistor. Lokacin da aka sanya wannan, sabon burin shine a nemo kayan da ba su iya jurewa wutar lantarki.
William Shockley, daya daga cikin wadanda ke da alhakin kirkiro na'urar transistor, ya kafa kamfani mai suna Shockley Semiconductor don tallata transistor silicon. Daya daga cikin matasan masana kimiyyar da ya kira shine Gordon Moore.
An haifi Moore a California a shekara ta 1929 kuma ya yi karatu a Cibiyar Fasaha ta jihar inda ya kware a fannin kimiyyar lissafi kuma ya sami digiri na uku a fannin ilmin sinadarai. Daga nan ya koma Jami’ar John Hopkins wanda a cikin dakin gwaje-gwajen kimiyyar lissafi ya gudanar da bincike bayan kammala karatun digiri inda Shockley ya dauke shi aiki.
"Mayaudaran Takwas"
Rashin jin daɗin salon gudanarwa na Shockley da rashin sakamako, tare da bakwai daga cikin abokan aikinsa sun shiga Fairchild Semiconductor abin da ya bayyana a matsayin cin amana. Fairchild na ɗaya daga cikin kamfanoni na farko da suka ƙaura zuwa Silicon Valley a 1957.
Dokar Moore
A matsayinsa na darektan bincike da haɓakawa a Fairchild, Moore zai ƙaddamar da dokar da za ta sa sunansa na ƙarshe ya shahara a duniyar fasaha. An fara bayyana dokar Moore a cikin labarin Mujallar Electronics da aka buga a 1965, wanda ya lura da haka Adadin abubuwan da za a iya sanyawa a cikin da'irar da aka haɗa ya ninka sau biyu a kowace shekara, kuma za a ci gaba da tafiya. Bayan shekaru goma ya canza wa'adin zuwa shekaru biyu.
A cikin 1968 tare da abokin aiki daga Fairchild ya kafa NM Electronics, wanda daga baya za a yi masa baftisma a matsayin Intel Corporation inda zai zama mataimakin shugaban kasa, shugaba da babban jami'in gudanarwa.
Da zarar ya yi ritaya zai sadaukar da kansa ga ayyukan jin kai da ke tallafawa yawancin abubuwan muhalli.