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 ...

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 ...