Among other things, a $10 million gift from a tech icon alumni will allow an Iowa school to establish an endowed computer ...

But over in California, another man had similar ideas. In January of 1959, Robert Noyce was working at the small Fairchild Semiconductor startup company. He also realized a whole circuit could be ...

Bob Noyce's nickname was the "Mayor of Silicon Valley." He was one of the very first scientists to work in the area -- long before the stretch of California had earned the Silicon name -- and he ...

Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as ... Noyce's invention of the microchip ultimately re-shaped the future, launching the world into the Information Age.

Their leader was 29-year-old Robert Noyce, a physicist with a brilliant mind and the affability of a born salesman who would co-invent the microchip — an essential component of nearly all modern ...