Robert Noyce

Robert Noyce (1927–1990) was an American engineer and physicist who co-invented the integrated circuit and co-founded both Fairchild Semiconductor and Intel Corporation. He earned a Ph.D. in physics from MIT in 1953 and co-founded Intel with Gordon Moore in 1968, where he oversaw the development of the first microprocessor. Noyce is widely recognized as a foundational figure in the semiconductor industry and earned the nickname "the Mayor of Silicon Valley" for his contributions to the region. At the time of his death in 1990, he was serving as president and CEO of Sematech Inc., a research consortium in Austin, Texas.