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Intel's Former CEO (and First Hire) Andy Grove Dead at 79
The Verge reports the death at age 79 of former Intel CEO, Andy Grove, one of the best-known names in Silicon Valley, and in fact one of the people who are behind the fecund technological and business climate that made Silicon Valley a household name. Grove's professional life at Intel spanned five decades, beginning as a day-one, number-one hire, as director of engineering; he went on to serve as president, CEO, and chairman of the board, managing to write several books along the way; "Only the Paranoid Survive" is probably the best known. From The Verge's story: During Groves' tenure as CEO, Intel produced chips including the 386 and Pentium, which became name brands unto themselves and laid the groundwork for much of the personal computing era. "Andy approached corporate strategy and leadership in ways that continue to influence prominent thinkers and companies around the world," Intel Chairman Andy Bryant said in a statement. "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."
Come on Tim, up your game.
A true engineer. Not just a suit. He is really what a tech CEO should be.
Too many people are forced to suffer long and agonizing deaths in the US just to satisfy the beliefs of those who believe that "every thing should be done!" We are all mortal, accept that.
Time is what keeps everything from happening all at once.
He was one of a few that made modern porn viewing possible. I will fap in his honor tonight to a plethora of bukkake and gangbang vids.
He was a damn fine engineer, CEO, and businessman. We have lost one of cornerstones of the PC revolution.
A little levity on this sad day, considering Intel got its start in flash memory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
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When Andy Grove contracted prostate cancer, he used his research skills and his notoriety to significantly advance prostate cancer awareness - not just in regular media but in business journals - suddenly breaking the barriers to open and frank discussion about this killer disease amongst men.
The net result was that countless lives were saved because of him. RIP, Andy Grove.
I take it that his paranoia finally ran out?
Other current and/or ex CEOs of Intel not dead at ages other than 79.
I read one of his books, and a biography about him. A very interesting, insightful, and influential fellow.
I wonder how much of a hand he had in shaping Intel's unique culture? I've had the opportunity to work with a number of people coming out of Intel and they have been some of the most focused and driven people I've ever worked with.
much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot - George Orwell
He didn't build silicon valley, he architect'ed it. From both a tech, social and business perspective. That's a feat only true visionaries can accomplish.
I started my career at Intel, providing help desk support for Andy's secretary among others. Great place to work under Andy's tenure.
I completely agree with you. The medical-pharma doctor-industry complex makes a lot of money based on the message that they can "make you almost live forever". Never mind that this is completely against nature and that many people have a painful last few years. It would be better if we died with most of our organs functioning properly, especially the brain.
But hey, we can make lots of dollars with "saving" the heart of 83 year olds for another ten years. Never mind their brain stopped working nicely at age 79.
That's how the medicuses have hyptontized us.
I heard Bill Hewlett and David Packard created Silicon Valley. Also "both" has something to do with the number 2 I am thinking.
Probably USG and all its spending (the aircraft industry in California, NASA, NRO, CIA, NSA) had a major hand in all this. Both people I mentioned worked at one time at the pentagon, where they could acquire very valuable knowledge and business contacts.
It also seems Bill and Dave invented Silly Valley. They swallowed the new age liberal stuff tail and sinker. Their kids were not groomed to take over the company and the founders also imagined that MBAs would be the correct people to run the company. So when it came to a critical time, the kids would protest about the doing of the MBA, but could not do anything effective against them.
Compare that to Rohde&Schwarz, which is much smaller but still looks healthy and energetic. Run by the founder's kids.
..seems to be this man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Terman
Without the massive contributions from pioneers such as Andy Grove there is no silicon valley
Among the many quotes of Mr. Grove, I especially like:
" Leading by example trumps everything else "
" Bad companies are destroyed by crisis, Good companies survive them, Great companies are improved by them "
Muchas Gracias, Señor Edward Snowden !
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vannevar_Bush
So hp->Terman->Bush we have reached the heart of USG and things like Raytheon, still a key part of American technology. And not forget the Manhattan project...
Of course, stealing big chunks of Alpha processor technology from DEC made it a lot easier to make that business shift.
http://www.cnet.com/news/intel...
Between David Cutler lifting VMS technologies to create NT over at Microsoft, and Intel stealing Alpha technologies to create the Pentium chip, DEC didn't have anything left to fund new technologies with and nothing left worth stealing.
RIP, man
It's not enough to make time for your children.
There are certain stages in their lives when you
have to give them the time when they want it.
You can't run your family like a company.
It doesn't work.
- Andy Grove (1936-2016)
I come here for the love
I thought this was a nerd site.
RIP Andy.
The world lost one of the great architects of the information age.
Umm it's not stealing if you have to pay $700 million for it.
Years ago I went to a presentation by Andy Grove where he said something I found very profound, but I've never seen quoted which I've always considered "Grove's law". I'll paraphrase it as "the cost of receivers equals the cost of the transmitter".
He explained that if you compared the price of a television broadcasting equipment to TVs, you roughly got a correlation between the number of TV stations vs TV sets based on their relative prices. Similarly, if you compared the cost of radio broadcasting equipment to radios, the same thing (which explained why got a lot more radio stations than TV stations since both the broadcasting and reception equipment is cheaper).
Looking at internet servers vs browsers, the hardware costs are nearly identical, making the internet nearly a "one-to-one" medium. I'm not sure if it has actually panned out this way given the predominance of a few big internet "broadcasters" like google and facebook with huge server farms, but I still love the theory.
If it works, it's obsolete