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were granted the Nobel Prize for it in 1956. The transistor was commercialized
on May 10, 1954 by Texas Instruments.
William Shockley founded, in 1955, “Shockley Semiconductor” in Palo Alto,
California. The company is heralded as the rst Silicon Valley business, but it
was never protable and within only a few years it was sold. Moore (Gordon
Earle Moore, Ph.D. in chemistry and physics, the author of the famous Moore's
Law, 1929–) and Noyce (Robert Norton Noyce, physicist, inventor, and entre-
preneur, nicknamed “the Mayor of Silicon Valley,” 1927–1990) left Shockley’s
company to co-found Intel Corporation. ...