Grove was the first hire at Intel, which was founded in 1968 by former employees of Fairchild Semiconductor. He later became CEO of Intel Corporation and helped transform the company into the world’s largest manufacturer of semiconductors. When Moore left to found Intel, he immediately hired Grove. “Andy made the impossible happen, time and again, and inspired generations of technologists, entrepreneurs, and business leaders”.
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Grove was born András István Gróf in Budapest, Hungary in 1936.
Intel confirmed the news of his death, saying that Grove played a key role in the move from memory chips to microprocessors, turning the company into the dominant brand that it is today as the chips helped ring in the age of the personal computer – and later finding their way into a wide variety of digital electronics like cameras, phones and home appliances.
Mr. Grove and Intel design team members watch a demonstration of the new Pentium chip, after a news conference, on March 22, 1993 in Santa Clara.
Grove was both an astute engineer and a careful student of business management.
“Andy approached corporate strategy and leadership in ways that continue to influence prominent thinkers and companies around the world”, said Intel Chairman Andy Bryant.
Grove wrote several well-received books, including “Only the Paranoid Survive”, a 1996 treatise on the science of managing crises, and his 2001 autobiography, “Swimming Across”, a harrowing memoir of Grove’s childhood. Grove was idolized by some of tech’s best-known leaders, including former Apple CEO Steve Jobs, who called him in 1997 to ask whether he should return to Apple.
He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Eva, two daughters and eight grandchildren. He contributed to Parkinson’s research and urged the medical community to more efficiently study the disease, from which he suffered.
Overcoming a sizable language barrier, he enrolled at the City College of NY, where he studied engineering and paid his way by working as a student assistant.
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