It is reported that before his death he was working on a three-terminal semiconductor amplifier device, which might have delivered the transistor to the Soviets years before it was invented by the ...

In 1957, Fairchild Semiconductor became the third company ... Two years later, Fairchild researchers invented the integrated chip, which really put the company on the map. The company grew from ...

So Noyce became the eighth in the group that left Shockley in 1957 and founded Fairchild Semiconductor. Noyce was the general manager of the company and while there invented the integrated chip ...

In fact, Henry Round at Marconi Labs noted the emission of light from a semiconductor diode 100 years ago and, independently, a forgotten Russian genius — Oleg Losev — discovered the LED.

PARC invented early computing tech, including ethernet computing and the graphical user interface. In 1971, journalist Don Hoefler titled a 3-part report on the semiconductor industry "SILICON ...