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

He was a Silicon Valley phyisicist whom (along with Jack Kilbey) is credited for the invention of the integrated circuit. Also called 'the Major of Silicon Valley' for his company was the first one to establish at California's Silicon Valley. He is often ignored in the computer's history, but in fact he is probably the main figure of our modern technology, he is the godfather of the "new technology" because gave start to smallest and more efficient computers, and created the base of other important components of computers.

He is also one of the creators and co-founders of nowadays what we call Intel, which produces about 80% of the computer's hardware used worldwide. He also helped other important figures of technology developing outstanding components, and many of today's computer figures once looked up to Noyce for advice, like Steve Jobs.

Robert Noyce was also defined as a very innovative person, he was always looking for something new and he liked to go to meetings with young people so that he could listen to their ideas and give advices of his own. At first, he was working with a Nobel prize physicist, but quitted to create his own company. This company, among many other discoveries, was the one who actually invented the integrated circuit. The integrated circuit is a small silicon chip) that makes the work of hundreds of circuits; this of course, reduced the size of computer to what we know nowadays as a PC, but which once were the size of a foot ball camp; He made the integrated circuits with silicon, which made them cheap and easy to sell, while the ones from Jack used Germanium, (which was expensive an quite dangerous). This integrated circuits started being used on the 3rd generation computers as its main component.

Robert Noyce not only helped in creating a computer's new generation,which transformed and improved everything, but he was also worried about the union of American computer makers. Before dying in 1990, he was the chairman of an association that wanted to unite American developers to 'fight' the Japanese market. It is very sad that most of the people have no idea who Robert Noyce is, because he did not only changed the computer world, but he also was very kind and liked for everyone to be equal.