All that detail paid off. On April 25, 1961, the patent office awarded the first patent for an integrated circuit to Robert Noyce while Kilby's application was still being analyzed. Today ...

By January 23, 1959, his idea for the integrated circuit filled four pages of his notebook. And so Jack Kilby at TI and Robert Noyce at Fairchild had independently invented the integrated circuit.

He also invented the integrated chip, one of the stepping stones along the way to the microprocessors in today's computers. Noyce, the son of a preacher, grew up in Grinnell, Iowa. He was a ...

We recently looked at the origins of the integrated circuit (IC ... We pick up the tale with Robert Noyce, who had co-invented the IC while at Fairchild Semiconductor. In July 1968 he left ...