American physicist jack kilby, one of the two inventors of integrated circuits (the other is robert noyce), an engineer of Texas Instruments, invented the integrated circuit in 1958, and JK trigger was named after him.
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From 65438 to 0998, I visited Taiwan Province Province for the first time and received an honorary doctorate from Jiaotong University. In 2000, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics.
On June 20th, 2005, he died of cancer in Dallas, Texas at the age of 8 1.
Robert noyce robert norton noyce is one of the co-founders of Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel, nicknamed "Mayor of Silicon Valley" or "Father of Silicon Valley". Noyce is also one of the inventors of integrated circuits for electronic devices, and his invention played a key role in the popularization of personal computers.
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Robert noyce was born in Burlington, southeastern Iowa, ranking third. His father was a pastor of the church, so when he was a child, Robert moved around with his family. When he was 8 years old, he moved to Dikola, and he spent a lot of time working in the basement. After graduating from high school, he studied at Grinnell College, majoring in physics and mathematics. In class, G·O· Gail, head of physics department, showed the transistor invented by john bardeen, which aroused Noyce's great interest.
Noyce is a swimmer at school, and 1947 won the American Midwest Swimming Championships. He also plays the oboe and performs a series of programs on local radio stations. 1953 received a Ph.D. degree in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, with the title of "Photoelectric Research on the Surface State of Insulators". I worked in Fercot company for three years after graduation.
1956 At the beginning of the year, scientist william shockley decided to set up a semiconductor company, and Noyce decided to follow him to achieve something great. Because all the staff are doctors, it is called "doctor production line". From 65438 to 0957, Noyce was dissatisfied with shockley's autocratic management system, and resigned with eight people including Moore. With the support of venture capitalists Arthur Locke and Sherman fairchild, he founded fairchild Semiconductor Company, which shockley called "the Eight Traitors".
1959 65438+ 10 In October, Noyce wrote a plan to build an integrated circuit and began research and development. Oxide films are used as insulating layers of semiconductors, and aluminum strips are used to integrate components and wires. But by this time, jack kilby of Texas Instruments had made an integrated circuit, but his design was not practical. On July 30th of the same year, Fairchild filed a patent application for "Semiconductor Device-Wiring Structure" (U.S. Patent No.298 1877). As for kilby, the patent of 1964 was approved on June 23rd. 1969, the court ruled that there was no infringement problem in the integrated circuit invented by Noyce and kilby, and both patents were valid.
1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched an artificial satellite. NASA decided to send a man to the moon. The Apollo space shuttle chose Noyce's integrated circuit.
1968 In August, Noyce resigned together with Gordon Moore and Andy Grove to form Intel (Integrated Electronics). Noyce pioneered a new model of cubicle office without walls. 197 1 year1month, Intel 4004 microprocessor chip came out. Robert noyce is also known as "the mayor of Silicon Valley".
Noyce has a wide range of interests. He likes diving, skiing and flying airplanes. 1On June 3rd, 990, Noyce died of a heart attack while swimming at the age of 62.