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Question 4: Who is Robert Noyce and why is he important to the technology world?

Robert Noyce is one of the most important man involved in the technology world, the impact that he created was huge.The problem is that he was very important but not many people know about him, and what he has done. Noyce is known for the invention of the integrated circuit and foundation of Silicon Valley.

By the video we were able to notice the impact that integrated circuit had, before its invention the computers were huge, they occupied a complete room or a football field. After the invention the size of the computers changed considerable from being as big as a room to be as big as a fridge. That became a huge different to the technology development, integrated circuit opened the doors to what we know now.

The foundation of Silicon Valley was based on the ideas of Noyce of a perfect community. There were no differences between the head of the company and normal workers, one example of this is that his cubicle was the same as the all the other people. Every person could go talk to him as long as they had something interesting to say.

Noyce thought that the computers were too big, and he wanted to build something that was two-dimensional that could carry the same operations as the other computers, so he started developing that idea, until it became true, the now known as integrated circuit. In those days there was another man who also had that idea, but he was the first one to write it down, so he looked like the one that had that idea first, we still don't know who was the first one, but the circuit the other man had made, couldn't be created in mass because of the materials he had used, but the one Noyce had built could be made in mass because he used light and cheap materials. Noyce integarted circuit was also more resistent becacuse it was made of silicon.

Almost no one knows about him, and about his important work, which helped the tecnology to be what we know now a days. he was the creator of the integrated circuit, or the silicon chip, after that it was named silicon valley. but why was the creation of a silicon chip so important? well, years ago, computers where not what we know now, they where huge, with vacumm tubes that looked like bolbes, they where as big as a football field, and where only owned by universities, because they where the only ones whith the necvsary space. They started evolving and that football field shrunk to the size of a closet or a friedge, but there was still a lot of problems, they where expensive, heavy, unportable, they did not had as many funtions as they do now neither the capacity and memory. so his invention opened a new era, and actually, computers now a days still use silicon chips, it hade it easier because they stoped making each panel one by one, made it cheaper, and for the use of everyone.