The chip was jointly developed by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce. Jack Kilby
American physicist, one of the two inventors of the integrated circuit (the other is Robert Noyce), an engineer at Texas Instruments, who invented the integrated circuit in 1958 , the JK flip-flop is named after him.
Life
In 1998, he visited Taiwan for the first time and received an honorary doctorate from the National Chiao Tung University. Won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000.
Died of cancer in Dallas, Texas, USA on June 20, 2005 at the age of 81. Robert Noyce
Robert Norton Noyce is one of the co-founders of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel. He is known as the "Mayor of Silicon Valley" or "Father of Silicon Valley" nickname. Noyce was also one of the inventors of the integrated circuit, an electronic device. His invention played a key role in the popularization of personal computers.
Life
Robert Noyce was born in Burlington, a town in southeastern Iowa, USA. He is the third oldest child. His father was a church minister, so when he was a child, Robert moved around with his family. When he was 8 years old, he moved to Decorah, where he spent a lot of time in the basement workshop. After graduating from high school, he enrolled at Grinnell College, majoring in physics and mathematics. G.O. Gall, the head of the physics department, showed the transistor invented by John Bardeen in class, which aroused Noyce's great interest. .
Noyce was a competitive swimmer at school and won the 1947 Midwestern Regional Swimming Championships. He also played the oboe and performed in serials on local radio. He received his PhD in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953. His doctoral thesis was titled "Optoelectric Study of Surface States of Insulators". After graduation, he worked at Felco Corporation for 3 years.
In early 1956, scientist William Shockley decided to start a semiconductor company, and Noyce decided to follow him to achieve a great cause. Since the staff were all Ph.D.s, it was called the "Ph.D. production line." In 1957, Noyce was dissatisfied with Shockley's autocratic management system, resigned collectively with Moore and other eight people, and founded Fairchild Semiconductor with funding from venture capitalists Arthur Rock and Sherman Fairchild. Shockley called him "the eight traitors" ".
In January 1959, Noyce wrote a plan for building integrated circuits and began research and development. He used an oxide film as an insulating layer for semiconductors to create aluminum strips to connect components and wires. Integrated into one. However, by this time Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments (TI) had already made an integrated circuit, but his design was not practical. On July 30 of the same year, Fairchild filed a patent application for "Semiconductor Device - Wiring Structure" (U.S. Patent No. 2,981,877). Kilby's patent was not approved until June 23, 1964. In 1969, the court ruled that the integrated circuit invented by Noyce and Kilby did not involve infringement and both patents were valid.
In 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched an artificial satellite. In 1959, NASA decided to send humans to the moon. The Apollo space shuttle selected Noyce's integrated circuits.
In August 1968, Noyce resigned together with Gordon Moore and Andy Grove to found Intel (Integrated Electronics). Noyce pioneered the cubicle office without walls. In November 1971, the Intel 4004 microprocessor chip was released. Robert Noyce is even called the "Mayor of Silicon Valley."
Noyce has a wide range of interests. He enjoys scuba diving, skiing, and flying airplanes. On June 3, 1990, Noyce died of a sudden heart attack while swimming at the age of 62.