Former Intel CEO Andy Grove Dies at 79
March 21 2016 - 9:44PM
Dow Jones News
By Don Clark
Andrew S. Grove, the Holocaust survivor who turned Intel Corp.
into one of high tech's most influential trendsetters, died at the
age of 79.
No cause of death was immediately disclosed. Mr. Grove, who
successfully fought a well-publicized battle against prostate
cancer, had suffered from Parkinson's disease in recent years.
The Hungarian-born executive, Time magazine's Man of the Year in
1997, helped Intel weather a transition from supplying memory
chips--a commodity product facing tough competition from Asia--into
the dominant maker of microprocessors that serve as the calculating
engines for personal computers. Along the way, Mr. Grove helped
turn Intel into one of the few consumer brands to emerge from the
semiconductor industry.
Born András Gróf in Budapest, and later known as Andy, Mr. Grove
was schooled in electrical engineering and received a Ph.D. from
the University of California at Berkeley. He joined Fairchild
Semiconductor and later Intel after it was founded by Robert Noyce
and Gordon Moore in 1968.
Though not a founder of the Silicon Valley company, Mr. Grove
put a decisive stamp on it. While Mr. Noyce became the chip
industry's statesman and Mr. Moore its most famous engineer, Mr.
Grove supplied discipline and management skill that he would later
incorporate in books and courses he taught at Stanford
University.
His management books include "High Output Management," "One on
One With Andy Grove," and "Only the Paranoid Survive." His later
memoir, "Swimming Across," detailed his experience in Budapest
during World War II and during the Hungarian Revolution before he
escaped to the U.S.
Mr. Grove was Intel's CEO from 1987 to 1998 and its president
from 1979 to 1997. He served as chairman from May 1997 to May
2005.
He and his wife, Eva, were married for 58 years and had two
daughters and eight grandchildren.
Write to Don Clark at don.clark@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
March 21, 2016 21:29 ET (01:29 GMT)
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