NOYCE, ROBERT (NORTON)


Meaning of NOYCE, ROBERT (NORTON) in English

born Dec. 12, 1927, Burlington, Iowa, U.S.

died June 3, 1990, Austin, Texas

U.S. engineer.

He received a Ph.D. from MIT. In 1957 he launched Fairchild Semiconductor, one of the first electronics firms in what came to be called Silicon Valley . Simultaneously but independently, he and integrated circuit computer chip in 1959. With his colleague Gordon Moore, he founded {{link=Intel Corp.">Intel Corporation . in 1968. In 1988 Noyce became president of Sematech, Inc., a research consortium formed and financed jointly by industry and the U.S. government to keep the U.S. semiconductor industry at the forefront of semiconductor manufacturing technology.

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