Andy Grove, 1936-2016
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Andy Grove, one of Intel's most influential CEOs, died today at 79. Born in 1936, Grove immigrated to the United States in 1957 after surviving Nazi and Soviet oppression in his native Hungary. He earned his Ph.D in chemical engineering from UC Berkeley in 1963 before joining Fairchild Semiconductor as a researcher. Grove was the first hire of Intel founders Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce when they left Fairchild to form the new company in 1968.
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