Noyce’s monolithic integrated circuit process used precision photolithography to simultaneously create transistors, capacitors and resistors side by side in a single silicon wafer.

And so Jack Kilby at TI and Robert Noyce at Fairchild had independently invented the integrated circuit. Patent Problems As you’d expect, with two independent inventors, patent fights ensued.

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, both men are ...

About the same time Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor was working on an integrated circuit made of silicon, which was introduced in 1959. Noyce received U.S. Patent 2,981,877.

Robert Noyce co-founded Intel Corporation, which is worth $184.4 billion today, ... He was awarded the National Medal of Technology in 1987 and Charles Stark Draper Award in 1990 for his ‘integrated ...

Noyce himself led the race; by 1968 he had a dozen new integrated-circuit and transistor patents. And what amazing things such miniaturization made possible! In December 1968 NASA sent the first ...

The Nobel Prize in physics is not awarded posthumously, and so in 2000, it was awarded to Jack Kilby for the invention of the integrated circuit. Kilby publicly credited Noyce as a co-inventor.

Robert Noyce was a scientist early to the new field of semiconductors, as well as an entrepreneur who co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel. Google doodle honors 'Mayor of Silicon Valley ...