Title: The Man behind the Microchip
Author: Leslie Berlin
Pages read: 229 pgs.
Total pages: 309
Fairchild Semiconductors has become one of
America’s leading transistor company. Every year the profit just keep getting
bigger and they have gone worldwide. Over one million people work with
Fairchild Semiconductors which span from America to Asia. For Robert Noyce
things aren’t going as well. Even though he is rich he has major issues with
his wife. They both like different things. When Robert works on something down
in the basement his wife thinks that he is avoiding her. Soon Robert starts
making some notes about a device that can hold hundreds of transistors on a
super thin wafer. Robert decides to hold off from sharing this idea with his
fellow comrades until Jack Kilby announces something. Texas instruments invent
something that is very similar to Robert’s idea about placing transistors on a
wafer thin surface. When this happens Robert Noyce starts work on his
microchip.
One unique thing that I found out about
Robert Noyce is that he has a very hard time trying to lie. One time his
comrades played an Aprils fool joke on a person who just came into town. They
made a joke lunch with a special surprise at the end. When they were half way
through their lunch Robert blurts out “it’s a joke”.
During his education years Robert Noyce was
a very smart person. Through all his courses he got top marks and full grades.
Sometimes he would even teach some classes.
This is a picture of Robert Noyce's first design of a microchip.
Sounds great, I hope you will like learning more about him. I really like the picture, this way we can see what he created.
ReplyDeleteThis is really good. I never have heard of him before you told us that he invented the microchip. Now I know that he is a great guy and a inspiration.
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