The Three Revolutions of Robert Noyce

Today is the birthday of the inventor of silicon-based chips and integrated circuits - a co-founder of Intel

Robert Norton Noyce (Robert Norton Noyce), was born on December 12, 1927 and was nicknamed the "Mayor of Silicon Valley". He co-founded Fairchild
Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968. He also created (along with Jack Kirby) the integrated circuit or microchip that underlies the personal computing revolution and gave Silicon Valley its name.

After graduating from MIT in 1953, he got a job as a research engineer at Philco in Philadelphia. He left in 1956 for Shukley Semiconductor Laboratories in Mountain View, California, a division of Beckman Instruments, but left with seven of his colleagues in 1957 due to complaints about the quality of management, and founded Fairchild Semiconductor with some of the leavers. According to Sherman Fairchild, the senior founder, Noyce's enthusiastic presentation and his enthusiasm were the reason why he agreed to create Fairchild's semiconductor division.

Noyce and Gordon Moore founded Intel in 1968 when he left Fairchild. Arthur Rock, chairman of Intel's board of directors and a major investor in the company, said that Intel's success was due to Noyes, Moore and Andy Grove, and in that order. Noyce: The vision, born for inspiration. Moore - the technological virtuoso, and Gorov - the technologist who became a scientist and manager.

While still in college, Noyce's physics lecturer, Grant Gale, held in his hands the first two transistors to come out of Bell Labs. Gale showed them to students and Noyes was fascinated by it. The field was young, and when Noyce moved to MIT in 1948 for a Ph.D., he found he knew more about transistors than his professors.

After a short period of manufacturing transistors for the electronics company Philco, Noyce decided to move to Shoki Semiconductor. One day he flew with his wife and two children to California, bought a house and went to visit Shukali to ask if they needed an employee. in this order.

Noyce was the CEO of Fairchild and while they invented the integrated chip - a silicon chip containing many transistors connected to it at the same time. Fairchild issued a patent for a silicon integrated circuit on July 30, 1959. This was Noyce's first revolution in the chip industry. He remained at Fairchild until 1968, when he left and joined Gordon Moore to found Intel. At Intel, he oversaw the invention of the microprocessor by Ted Hoff - and this was his second revolution.

Noyce was also the mentor and spiritual father of an entire generation of entrepreneurs.

In both companies, Noyce instilled a very modest work environment, the kind that has become the way companies work in California, but along with the open atmosphere comes responsibility. Noyce learned from Shockley's mistakes and gave the young employees enough space to achieve what they wanted. Noyce treated the employees like family, encouraging them and encouraging teamwork. This management method was later tried in many companies in Silicon Valley that became success stories. In many ways, writing about the working atmosphere in Silicon Valley was his third revolution.

At the end of his days he fought against an attempt by a group of Japanese women to purchase Intel. He died of a heart attack in 1990 at his home in Austin, Texas, at the age of 62.