Intel said Monday evening that Intel co-founder and former chief executive Andy Grove has died. He was 79.

Grove, who cofounded Intel with Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce, leaves behind his wife, Eva, as well as two daughters and eight grandchildren. Intel did not disclose the cause of Grove’s death, though in a Forbes profile during 2008, Grove disclosed that he had Parkinson’s disease and had been previously diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Grove immigrated to the United States in around 1956 from Hungary, having narrowly avoided being imprisoned by the Nazis. He studied chemical engineering at the City College of New York, and later completed his doctorate at the University of California at Berkeley. He was hired by Gordon Moore, who later became famous for Moore’s Law, at Fairchild, then left with Moore to found Intel with Moore and Noyce.

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