Robert Noyce was an American physicist and co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor and later Intel who, independently of Jack Kilby, developed a practical silicon-based integrated circuit in 1959 that proved far easier to manufacture than Kilby's germanium device and became the industry standard. He died in 1990, ten years before the Nobel Prize recognized the invention.
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Co-invented the integrated circuit and co-founded Intel.
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Source A History of TechnologyCharles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors
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Source Robert Noyce (Wikipedia)
Source Technology: A World HistoryDaniel R. Headrick
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Source A History of TechnologyCharles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editorstier 1
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1. A History of Technology
Charles Singer, E. J. Holmyard, A. R. Hall and Trevor I. Williams, editors, Oxford University Press, 1954- Birth Year: 1927
- Death Year: 1990
- Nationality: American
View the Source 2. Robert Noyce (Wikipedia)
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was an American physicist and entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968
- In Group: Semiconductor and Computer Pioneers, lead paragraph: semiconductor or foundational computing advance stated in own article
Invented: Integrated Circuit, Lead section
He was also credited with the realization of the first monolithic integrated circuit or microchip made with silicon, which fueled the personal computer revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name.
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