So Noyce became the eighth in the group that left Shockley in 1957 and founded Fairchild Semiconductor. Noyce was the general manager of the company and while there invented the integrated chip ...

Fairchild Semiconductor had become a shadow of its former self, facing severe budget cuts and the loss of key personnel.

Silicon Valley's decades of innovation have been fueled by huge gains in processing power so it was a good base to start learning about tech with semiconductors in the late 1980s. I also covered Apple ...

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 ...