Born
1927
Died
1990
Nationality
American
Events involving Robert Noyce (3)
1957
ID: 4374
October 1957
Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore and six others leave Shockley Semiconductor to found Fairchild - birth of Silicon Valley culture
ID: 4374
1959
ID: 4375
January 1959
Robert Noyce invents planar process for integrated circuits at Fairchild - enables mass production of chips
ID: 4375
1968
ID: 4378
July 18, 1968
Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore found Intel with Andy Grove as #3 - 'Integrated Electronics' with $2.5 million from Arthur Rock
ID: 4378