Chapter 6Robert Noyce
No individual’s story charts the genesis of enterprising technical activity in Silicon Valley better than that of Robert Noyce. He has been at the center of this high-technology community and its spin-off and start-up activity from the beginning.
He was one of the earliest employees at the Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, which opened in Palo Alto in 1955 and it was the first semiconductor company to locate in the Santa Clara Valley. (There were already a few technology companies here then, dating back to the 1930s and 40s, such as Hewlett-Packard, Varian Associates, and Ampex, but it was the launching of the semiconductor industry here in the mid-1950s that gave this place its nickname and marked the beginning of the ...
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