Andy Grove
Andy Grove
Andrew Stephen "Andy" Grovewas a Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, author and a science pioneer in the semiconductor industry. He escaped from Communist-controlled Hungary at the age of 20 and moved to the United States where he finished his education. He was one of the founders and the CEO of Intel Corporation, helping transform the company into the world's largest manufacturer of semiconductors...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth2 September 1936
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