Founder of Intel:

Andrew Grove

Main Life Accomplishments:

Andrew S. Grove was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1936. He graduated from the City College of New York in 1960 with a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering degree and received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1963. Upon graduation, he joined the Research and Development Laboratory of Fairchild Semiconductor and became Assistant Director of Research and Development in 1967.

In July 1968, Dr. Grove participated in the founding of Intel Corporation. In 1979 he was named its President, and in 1987 he was named Chief Executive Officer. In May 1997 he was named Chairman and CEO, and in May 1998 he relinquished his CEO title. He stepped down as Chairman in May 2005, and remains Senior Advisor.

Dr. Grove has written over 40 technical papers and holds several patents on semiconductor devices and technology. He taught a graduate course in semiconductor device physics at the University of California, Berkeley for six years. He currently is a lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, teaching a course entitled "Strategy and Action in the Information Processing Industry".

Dr. Grove has received an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the City College of New York (1985), an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (1989) and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Harvard University (2000).

 

Basics:

Born:  September 2, 1936 (1936-09-02) (age 72) Budapest, Hungary

Nationality:  American

Religion:  Jewish   

Fields:   Business

Main Accomplishments:  A Hungarian-American businessman and scientist. He was one of the earliest employees of Intel Corporation and ultimately played key leadership roles in its success.

 

Chronology of Life Events:

Sep 2, 1936

Born in Budapest, Hungary, on September 2 and named Andris Grof. The secular Jewish family is modestly prosperous; his father, George, is a dairyman; his mother, Maria, a book-keeping clerk.

1938

The Grof family moves to the commercially vibrant Pest section of Budapest where George Grof expands the dairy business.

1940

An acute attack of scarlet fever nearly kills four-year-old Andris. The illness leaves him almost completely deaf for years, until surgery finally corrects the problem.

1950

At age 14, he aspires to become a journalist and is a reporter for the youth newspaper, which is under the influence of the government. After a relative is imprisoned without trial, the newspaper stops publishing Andris's articles. The experience turns him off journalism. "I was crushed as only a slighted adolescent can be," he later writes. "I did not want a profession in which a totally subjective evaluation, easily colored by political considerations, could decide the merits of my work." He turns from journalism to science.

1958

Marries Eva Kaston in New York; he had met her the previous year while working as a busboy at a holiday resort in New Hampshire where she worked as a waitress.

1960

Graduates from the City College of New York with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering. Knowing that Grove loves America but hates New York, a professor suggests Grove might prefer California.

1963

Completes his Ph.D. at the University of California at Berkeley.

1963

Joins the research and development laboratory of Fairchild Semiconductor. Founded in 1957, the company initially started out making transistors for IBM and other customers, but the company became well known after researcher Robert Noyce co-invented the integrated chip in 1959.

1967

Becomes assistant director of R&D at Fairchild Semiconductor, working under Gordon Moore, one of the top chemists of the century.

1968

Co-founds Intel—short for Integrated Electronics—with Moore and Noyce. The company initially focuses on making integrated chips.

1972

Intel develops an eight-bit microprocessor, the 8008, with twice the power of the 4004.

1979

Grove becomes president of Intel.

1987

Becomes CEO of Intel; G.P. Putnam's Sons publishes One-on-One with Andy Grove. Grove is a "Dear Abby of the Workplace," offering business advice as a columnist for Knight Ridder.

1994

Controversy explodes around Intel as it releases flawed Pentium chips; after initially saying the problem is minor, Intel changes direction and agrees to spend $475 million to replace the flawed chips.

1994

In December, Grove's doctors diagnose cancer of the prostate. He reads all the research he can find on the subject and decides upon his own treatment.

1997

Becomes chairman and CEO of Intel.

1997

Time magazine names Grove "Man of the Year."

1998

Steps down as CEO but remains chairman; named "Distinguished Executive of the Year" by the Academy of Management.

2004

Grove is named the "most influential" business leader of the past 25 years by Wharton and Nightly Business Report.

 

Early Life:

Andrew Steven Grove was born András Gróf in Budapest, Hungary, on September 2, 1936. His father, George, was a dairyman, and his mother, Maria, worked as a bookkeeping clerk. The family was of Jewish descent and World War II proved to be a difficult time; Grove would see nothing but trouble until he departed from Europe. At the age of four, a wave of scarlet fever swept through Hungary. Grove was not spared, and over the course of the illness, his hearing was seriously damaged. The following year, his father was removed to a Nazi work camp. Grove and his mother changed their names and moved in with Christian acquaintances, who hid them during the Nazi pogroms of 1944. After the war, his father miraculously reappeared, though weakened by typhus and pneumonia. Grove, hoping to attend college in a few years, dabbled in journalism and took voice lessons, dreaming of perhaps becoming an opera singer. Political circumstances again intervened, however, in 1956, when Soviet tanks arrived in Budapest to put down the Hungarian Revolution. His father's occupation, as a private business owner, made Grove a potential dissident in the eyes of the communists. So, rather than face the possibility of prison, Grove and a friend fled to Austria.

From there, Grove made his way to the United States, where he moved in with an uncle who had immigrated to New York in the early 1930s. He enrolled in the City College of New York (CCNY), studying chemical engineering and waiting tables to pay his tuition. In the summer of 1957, he met a woman named Eva, who became his wife the following year. Grove graduated from CCNY in 1960, after which he and Eva relocated to California, where he entered the Ph.D. program at the University of California, Berkeley. There, as at CCNY, he performed spectacularly. Upon his graduation in 1963, he went to work for Fairchild Semiconductor, a small company which had recently been created by a few of the more forward-thinking engineers on the West Coast. He also began teaching at Berkeley, a side career he has continued to the present day.

At Fairchild, along with the head of the research department, Gordon Moore, and two other colleagues, Bruce Deal and Edward Snow, Grove helped create the first marketable silicon-based integrated circuit. This was a major step for the computer industry, which, until then, used transistors as switching elements in their products. To be sure, transistors were far better than their predecessors, vacuum tubes. Vacuum tubes were bulky, and they generated a tremendous amount of heat and consumed an equally large amount of electricity. The transistor was considerably smaller, and required no heating element. The drawback was that they had to be used individually. In order to move forward, the industry required that more than one transistor occupy a single unit. The solution to this dilemma came as early as 1959, but it would take several years, and the particular combination of talents that existed at Fairchild, under the leadership of general manager Bob Noyce, to create a reliable, mass-produced integrated circuit. That accomplishment stood poised to revolutionize the industry, and thereafter, the world.

 

Wife Background:

Eva Kastan, wife of Andy Grove, an Austrian refugee who came to the United States by way of Bolivia. They met when they had summer jobs (she was a waitress and he a busboy) in a New Hampshire resort. They were married on June 8, 1958. Grove did not like New York City, so he and his bride drove across the continent to San Francisco. They spent the summer there in 1959 and moved out permanently the following year.Grove enrolled in the University of California at Berkeley, from which he earned a PhD in chemical engineering in three years under the sponsorship of Professor Andreas Acrivos.

 

Father Background:

Grove’s father was a “partner in a medium-sized dairy business that he owned jointly with several friends.

 

Mother Background:

His mother “was cultured without being snobbish.” She got married to Andy's father on June 16, 1933 Andy was born on September 2, 1936.

 

Maria, is a bookkeeping clerk.

 

 

 

 

 
 
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