Intel has announced that the company's former CEO and Chairman Andrew S. Grove passed away today at the age of 79. Under Grove's leadership, Intel migrated from memory chips to microprocessors, and produced the chips, including the 386 and Pentium, that helped usher in the PC era.
Born András Gróf in Budapest, Hungary, Grove immigrated to the United States in 1956-7 having survived Nazi occupation and escaped Soviet repression. He studied chemical engineering at the City College of New York, completing his Ph.D at the University of California at Berkeley in 1963. After graduation, he was hired by Gordon Moore at Fairchild Semiconductor as a researcher and rose to assistant head of R&D under Moore. When Noyce and Moore left Fairchild to found Intel in 1968, Grove was their first hire.
Grove was chairman of the board of Intel from May 1997 through May 2005. He held the chief executive position from 1987 though 1998, and was president from 1979 through 1997. Under his tenure, the company increased annual revenues from $1.9 billion to more than $26 billion.
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