1955
Steve Jobs said he was born in 1955 and Robert Noyce in 1927.
“Yeah, I was born in 1955, so he was almost thirty years older than me.”
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Robert Noyce
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1957
Eight Shockley Semiconductor employees, later called the traitorous eight, resigned together to start a competing company.
“a group of eight employees who are really talented, they're kind of fed up with his antics. They decide to do something pretty radical. They all resign en masse on the same day.”
Undated
Hamilton Helmer says Intel began as a memory company led by Gordon Moore, Bob Noyce and Andy Grove, yet the memory business lacked sources of power.
“They had two businesses. They started as a memory company. They started with the best of the best.”
Undated
Hamilton Helmer says Bob Noyce consulted people and then decided Intel should commit to the central processor, which the chairman of the board also backed.
“And Bob Noyce went out and kind of talked to people. And this is the nature of invention. High uncertainty bars, very large bandwidth, deep insights. And he finally said, no, I really think this eventually is going to go somewhere.”
Undated
Robert Noyce co-invented the microchip and co-founded Intel and Fairchild Semiconductor, and he mentored a young Steve Jobs.
“Noyce co-invented the microchip and co-founded Intel and Fairchild Semiconductor, the first successful silicon microchip company in Silicon Valley.”
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