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.

On April 25, 1961, Fairchild Semiconductor co-founder Robert Noyce was issued patent No. 2981877 for his “semiconductor device-and-lead structure,” which would come to be known as the integrated ...

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 ...

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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 ...