Robert Noyce Founder of Intel Corporation
Robert Noyce Founder of Intel Corporation

Biography of Robert Noyce

Early Life

Robert Noyce founder of Intel Corporation was a famous American businessman and entrepreneur. He was born in the year of 1927 on December 12th in Burlington, Iowa in United States of America. He attended his local school for his initial education and later on for formal education; he joined Grinnell School for freshman physics course. He graduated from there in the year of 1945 and after that was promoted to Grinnell College for further studies. Due to an issue, he was rusticated from college for one semester and he returned in the year of 1949. He got his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physics for there and later on earned his Master’s degree from Massachusetts institute of technology.

Initial Career

After his graduation, he started his formal career in the year of 1953, when he got his first job as a research engineer in Phil co Corporation which was located in Philadelphia. Later on, he left that job and joined Shockley semiconductor laboratory in the year of 1956 which was located in California.  

Co Founder of Intel Corporation

Robert Noyce is widely credited as co founder of Intel Corporation. After his initial career as a research engineer, now he was working with William Shockley who was   the inventor of transistor and later on winner of Nobel Prize. After that, he founded a company named as Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation in the year of 1957 with Sherman Fairchild. He met with Gordon Moore in Fairchild Company and they became good friends. Later on, due to having some clashes with Sherman, Robert and Gordon left the company and stated trying to find out their own company. As a result, they cofounded Intel Corporation in the year of 1968. They utilized their experience of the field which they worked in and made it a very famous company.

Intel Corporation

Intel Corporation was co founded by Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore in the year of 1968 on July 18th. The company was started in a manner that Noyce worked as a visionary leader of the company while Moore was working as the Virtuoso of technology. Generally Intel is an information technology sector multinational company which was started for the making of semiconductor chips. Presently this company its head quarter is in Santa Clara, California in United States of America. The number of employees working with Intel is about 107, 200 and having global revenue of 52.70 billion United States dollars. Now a days, company generally deals in different products and having some like Bluetooth chipsets, flash memory, microprocessors, motherboard chipsets, network interface cards and so many like this. Its area of service is worldwide and it is said as that Intel Corporation is present in every second home having computer. The reason behind this statement is the number of people using computers with Intel microprocessors.

Death

He died in the year of 1990 on June 3 in Huston, Texas. He was almost 62 years of age at the time of his death.