Inducted 2016, when the HoF was opened beyond Chip Making to include people who changed the business
Andrew Grove had a career of remarkable bandwidth and contributions
- His engineering texts on process technology were the mainstay of process engineers throughout the early days of the industry
- Later his management texts became just as important
- He ended second sourcing via his virtual second source strategy
- He was the first to directly market chips to consumers
- His extendibility model for microprocessors meant the PC market would gain scale, making computers affordable for the masses