Charles R. Moore (also known as Chuck Moore) was an American
computer engineer
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noted for his research on
computer architecture
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. He spent much of his career working at
IBM, where he was chief engineer and project co-lead for the
PowerPC
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601 microprocessor. He then led the POWER4 Chip Architecture project.
Biography
Moore received a B.S. degree in
electrical engineering
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from
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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in 1983. He received a M.S. in
Electrical Engineering
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from
University of Texas at Austin
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in 1991.
From 1984 to 2001, Moore worked at
IBM Corporation in Austin, Texas, with increasing responsibility and leadership on the design and development of IBM microprocessors, including
PowerPC
PowerPC (with the backronym Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) instruction set architecture (ISA) created by the 1991 Apple Inc., App ...
601, POWER4, and others. After a stint at Chicory Systems, a startup in the mobile computing space, he returned to
University of Texas at Austin
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as a senior research fellow. In 2004, he joined
Advanced Micro Devices
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, where he served as chief engineer for the “
Bulldozer
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” processor microarchitecture, and ultimately held the position of corporate fellow. In 2007, Moore gave a plenary talk at the ACM Federated Computing Research Conferences (
FCRC
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).
In 2008, he gave a keynote address at the
IEEE
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/
ACM
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Computing
* ...
International Symposium on Microarchitecture.
In 2012, Moore died of pancreatic cancer. and his career was memorialized in an
IEEE
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Micro article
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References
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1961 births
2012 deaths
IBM employees