Grove, Andrew Stephen (1936-2016), a Hungarian-born American engineer, was a noted executive in the computer industry. Grove served as president of Intel Corporation, one of the world’s leading manufacturers of semiconductor chips, from 1979 to 1997. From 1987 to 1998, he served as Intel’s chief executive officer. Grove served as chairman of Intel’s board of directors from 1997 to 2005. In 2005, he became the senior adviser to executive management at Intel.
Grove was born Andras Istvan Grof on Sept. 2, 1936, in Budapest, Hungary, to Jewish parents. During World War II (1939-1945), occupying Nazis drafted his father into a work brigade. A Christian family sheltered Andras and his mother, hiding them until after the war. In 1956, an anti-Communist revolution began in Hungary, and Soviet forces swept into the country to put down the uprising. Grof and a friend from school fled Hungary together, escaping to Austria. Grof then moved to the United States, joining relatives in New York City who had left Hungary during the 1930’s. He changed his name to Andrew Stephen Grove soon after arriving and became a U.S. citizen in 1962.
Grove earned a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from the City College of New York in 1964 and a Ph.D. degree in the same field from the University of California at Berkeley in 1967. He then went to work for Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation. There he met two other engineers, Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore. Noyce and Moore left Fairchild in 1968 to found Intel Corporation, and Grove went with them to join the new company as director of operations. Grove wrote several books about business management, including High Output Management (1983) and Only the Paranoid Survive (1996). He also wrote a book about his early life, Swimming Across: A Memoir (2001). Grove died on March 21, 2016.
See also Intel Corporation ; Noyce, Robert .
