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June 04, 2005
Will the Real Tech Nerdy Please Stand Up?
Ever hear of Moore's Law, the statement that the number of transistors on a microchip will double every 18 (or 24) months? Yeah, that was uttered by Gordon Moore, the co-founder of Intel, the largest semiconductor manufacturer in the world.
But did you ever wonder who the other co-founder of Intel was? Everything always reads "Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel." There must be somebody else...
Enter Robert Noyce, who actually invented the integrated circuit in 1959 at Fairchild Semiconductor and was Intel's first CEO. He apparently was also a brilliant businessman, pioneering many of the Silicon Valley practices currently in use.
Credit this revelation to PC Magazine's EiC Michael J. Miller (6/28/05). Also check out Noyce's book.
This story sounds alot like the double-Steves of Apple: Steve Jobs * is the Mac/iMac 'Renaissance Man' poster-boy, but Steve Wozniak was actually the inventor of the original Apple I computer. Just goes to show that the obvious history is not always the whole truth.
* Ironically, Noyce was Jobs' mentor during the early Apple days...
Posted by MaTT at June 4, 2005 01:32 AM
Comments
Don't people know of Wozniak?
Posted by: Cari at June 4, 2005 12:58 PM
I think they do (more than Noyce - i've never heard of the latter before), but i wanted to draw some parallel :)
Posted by: MaTT at June 4, 2005 01:29 PM