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Andrew Grove

Hungarian-American businessman and engineer who served as the third CEO of Intel, transforming it into the world's largest semiconductor company.

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Intel Corporation's third chief executive, Andrew Grove, was a businessman and engineer of Hungarian-American origin.[1]

Key facts and history

Grove was born as Gróf András István to a middle-class Jewish family in Budapest, Hungary.[2] In 1968, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore co-founded Intel, and Grove joined on the day of its incorporation.[3] He became Intel's president in 1979 and CEO in 1987.[4] Scarlet fever, contracted when Grove was four years old, nearly killed him and resulted in partial hearing loss.[2]

To evade arrest, Grove and his mother assumed false identities and were hidden by acquaintances, while his father was captured and sent to an Eastern Labor Camp.[5] A bachelor's degree in chemical engineering was awarded to Grove by the City College of New York in 1960.[6] Having finished his Ph.D. in 1963, Grove then took a research position at Fairchild Semiconductor.[7] Parkinson's disease was diagnosed in Grove during the year 2000.[8]

What the cited sources add

An IndustryWeek profile described Grove as a "savvy leader" who guided Intel to the forefront of the digital information revolution.[9] The same source noted that Grove was "very disciplined, precise, and detail-oriented"[9] A 1986 Mercury News article reported that Fortune magazine called Grove "one of America's toughest bosses"[10] The UCSF obituary stated that Grove was "a champion of innovation in the health sciences"[4]

The UCSF account also noted that Grove served as national chair of the seven-year Campaign for UCSF, which raised over $1.6 billion.[4]

References

  1. Wikipedia, "Andrew Grove" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Andy Grove, Valley Veteran Who Founded Intel, Dies at 79" , Bloomberg, March 21, 2016. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  2. Wikipedia, "Andrew Grove" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Movers and Shakers: the 100 Most Influential Figures in Modern Business, Basic Books (2003), pp. 205–207 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  3. Wikipedia, "Andrew Grove" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Gaither, "Andy Grove's Tale of His Boyhood in Wartime", The New York Times, 2001-11-12 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  4. "UCSF Mourns Loss of Andrew S. Grove (1936-2016)" , UCSF, April 1, 2016.. facts only, no text reused. ucsf.edu
  5. Wikipedia, "Andrew Grove" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Movers and Shakers: the 100 Most Influential Figures in Modern Business, Basic Books (2003), pp. 205–207; "Andrew S. Grove", Encyclopedia.com, 1936-09-02 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  6. Wikipedia, "Andrew Grove" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "A kicsivel is beérte - Andrew S. Grove (1936–2016)", magyarnarancs.hu, 2016-04-17; "Fizikai Szemle 2002/2 - Marx György: Andrew S. Grove: SWIMMING ACROSS", www.epa.oszk.hu (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  7. Wikipedia, "Andrew Grove" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: Henderson, Harry. Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, Infobase Publishing (2009), p. 218. (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  8. Wikipedia, "Andrew Grove" (CC BY-SA 4.0), which cites: "Andy Grove's Last Stand" 2018; Kandall, "Andrew S. Grove, Longtime Chief of Intel, Dies at 79", The New York Times, 21 March 2016 (original not read by us) en.wikipedia.org
  9. "1997 Technology Leader of the Year" , IndustryWeek, December 15, 1997.. facts only, no text reused. industryweek.com
  10. Schmitt, "At work with the valley's toughest boss, Intel's Andy Grove", The Mercury News, May 26, 1986. facts only, no text reused. mercurynews.com

Each numbered sentence above was checked against the source it cites before publication. Sentences citing Wikipedia adapt text from the English Wikipedia article Andrew Grove (contributors), used under CC BY-SA 4.0; this entry is available under the same licence. Other sources were used for facts only; no text or images are copied from them.

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