Intel co-founder Andy Grove has died

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Andrew S Grove was chairman of the board of Intel Corporation from May 1997 to May 2005. He was the company’s chief executive officer from 1987 to 1998 and its president from 1979 to 1997. (Image: Intel Corporation)

22 March 2016

Intel has announced that Intel co-founder and former chief executive Andrew Grove has died aged 79.

Grove, who co-founded Intel with Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce, immigrated to the United States about 1956 from Hungary, having narrowly avoided being imprisoned by the Nazis. He studied chemical engineering at the City College of New York, and later completed his doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley. He was hired by Moore, who later became famous for Moore’s Law, at Fairchild, then left with Moore to found Intel with Moore and Noyce.

Grove served as president at Intel in 1979 and ascended to the chair of chief executive in 1987. He oversaw the rise of the company as a household name, killing off Intel’s DRAM business in favour of the microprocessor, the component that would become synonymous with Intel.

Specifically, Intel’s rise began with the 386 microprocessor and extended through the Pentium which, though marred by a notorious floating-point flaw, helped put Intel’s name on the map. Grove was also CEO during the time when Intel began marketing itself as “Intel Inside,” and the company rose into a leadership position as competitors like Cyrix and Via Technologies were pushed out of the market. After Grove stepped down in 1997, he served as a special advisor to the company.

Grove wrote “Only the Paranoid Survive,” a popular business book of the time. He did not suffer fools lightly, and he was not afraid to challenge reporters who he thought were asking the wrong questions.

“Andy approached corporate strategy and leadership in ways that continue to influence prominent thinkers and companies around the world,” said Intel chairman Andy Bryant, the company’s former chief financial officer. “He combined the analytic approach of a scientist with an ability to engage others in honest and deep conversation, which sustained Intel’s success over a period that saw the rise of the personal computer, the Internet, and Silicon Valley.”

 

 

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