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Gordon E. Moore, Intel retired chairman and CEO (and chairman emeritus of the board) spoke with Moira Gunn onstage at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, in an interview that Intel called a "fireside chat."

In this segment, find out how Intel really got its start, and how much of its success Moore thinks was just great good luck.

The conversation covered a full career, from a time before semiconductors, when the very notion of integrated circuits was new — and controversial. Since then, of course, not only has Moore been on the winning side of the technology, but his name has become synomymous with the notion that the technology of the chip is on an aggressive development track — "Moore's Law" has guided and challenged the chip industry for more than 30 years. (Asked if he regrets that name, he says, "I guess I don't - now."