In January of 1959, Robert Noyce was working at the small Fairchild Semiconductor startup company. He also realized a whole circuit could be made on a single chip.

“If you had been given the money you would have been six years ahead of us,” von Ohain told Whittle when they met years later ...

Moore and Noyce played central roles in the first commercial production of diffused silicon transistors and later the world’s first commercially viable integrated circuits, according to Intel.

Noyce was the general manager of the company and while there invented the integrated chip -- a chip of silicon with many transistors all etched into it at once.