Interview With Gordon Moore

[HardOCP News]

There is a really good interview with Gordon Moore at SEMI today that really is worth checking out. When asked about the challenges of getting Intel’s first fab up and running, Mr. Moore had this to say:

At Intel, the challenge of the first fab was just getting it done in a hurry. We set, I believe, it was four goals that we had to accomplish before we could really make devices, and set up a wager between the people who had to do it and the people who were watching to see if it could be done. These were pretty aggressive. It required getting these things done by the end of that first year. Now, we started really the beginning of August, and we wanted to get them done by the end of December. So, it was really a challenge just to get it done. In fact, the last goal was actually achieved, I believe, on the 31st of December with a little fudging in order to make that happen.