As with many inventions, two people had the idea for an integrated circuit at almost the same time. Transistors had become commonplace in everything from radios to phones to computers, and now ...

By January 23, 1959, his idea for the integrated circuit filled four pages of his notebook. And so Jack Kilby at TI and Robert Noyce at Fairchild had independently invented the integrated circuit.

The ease with which Intel was brought into existence was in large part due to the stature of Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore – Noyce being largely credited with the co-invention of the integrated ...

The first wave of electronics was born a century ago with the invention of vacuum tubes. The bulky tubes were supplanted 50 years later by transistors and integrated circuits, representing the second ...