In Menoriam: Gordon Moore, 1929 - 2023

With great sadness, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announces the passing of our founder, Gordon Moore. With his characteristic humility and word economy, Gordon Moore once wrote “my career as an entrepreneur happened quite by accident.” A brilliant scientist, business leader and philanthropist, Gordon co-founded and led two pioneering technology enterprises, Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, and, with his wife, Betty, created one of the largest private grantmaking foundations in the U.S., the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation
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Working Student in Power Management (Intel Munich)

Working Student in Power Management f/m

Job Description: You will be responsible for developing a tool framework to breakdown and manage the power consumption of the Power Management ICs across all projects. The so-called power KPIs Key Performance Indicator are indeed strategic data critical for the competitiveness of battery powered system likes mobiles phones, wearables, IoT devices. You will be part of an enthusiastic and international system engineering team located in Munich and will get in touch locally with several design and validation teams.

Your main tasks in this full time position will be to:
- Setup a new framework to manage the power data in a new tool and environment
- Migrate existing project power consumption specifications and measurements currently in Excel
- Measure and correlate power KPIs on engineering samples in the post-silicon lab.
- Validate current power modelling approach and propose further model optimizations
- Contribute to the reporting and documentation for other teams and management

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SEMI Pacific Northwest Breakfast Forum

SEMI is having another Pacific Northwest, half-day breakfast forum:

“The Age of Automotive Electronics."

Time: Tuesday, Apr 26, 2016, 07:30 AM to 11:30 AM
Location: Intel Corp. RA3, 2501 NW 229th Ave., Hillsboro, OR 97124

Visit the Semi site for details.

Price per transistor on a chip

The price per transistor on a chip has dropped dramatically since Intel was founded in 1968. Some people estimate that the price of a transistor is now about the same as that of one printed newspaper character.

Intel has shipped over 200 million CPUs using high-k/metal-gate transistors – the kind used in 32nm processors -- since the technology was first put into production in November 2007. This translates to over 50,000,000,000,000,000 (50 quadrillion) transistors, or the equivalent of over 7 million transistors for every man, woman and child on earth. [more]