# Gordon Moore American businessman and engineer, co-founder of [[wiki/Fairchild Semiconductor|Fairchild Semiconductor]] (1957) and [[wiki/Intel|Intel]] (1968), and originator of Moore's Law. Moore was one of the [[wiki/Traitorous Eight|Traitorous Eight]] who left [[wiki/Shockley Semiconductor|Shockley Semiconductor]], carrying [[wiki/Bell Labs|Bell Labs]] methodological DNA into the semiconductor industry. His role in the Silicon Valley genealogy is traced in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].