Andy Grove fled Hungary in 1956, joined Intel as its third employee and, as CEO, turned it into the world's largest semiconductor company.
Robert Noyce, the 'Mayor of Silicon Valley', co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel and is credited with the first silicon monolithic integrated circuit.
Gordon Moore, a Caltech chemistry PhD, co-founded Intel and proposed Moore's law, that the number of transistors on a chip doubles about every two years.
Lisa Su has led AMD since 2014, growing its market value from roughly $3 billion to more than $700 billion and overtaking Intel in market capitalization for the first time.
Jensen Huang founded Nvidia in a Denny's restaurant in 1993 and steered it from near-bankruptcy to the world's most valuable company on the back of GPUs and AI.
