Silicon Valley Owes Its Success To This Tech Genius You’ve Never Heard Of | Smart News | Smithsonian

Silicon Valley Owes Its Success To This Tech Genius You’ve Never Heard Of | Smart News | Smithsonian: "Born on this day in 1927, Noyce was responsible for a number of computer firsts: he was instrumental to inventing the microchip, he co-founded Intel and he played an important part in lobbying Washington on behalf of Silicon Valley. All this, and he even mentored Apple founder Steve Jobs, writes Leslie Berlin in The Man Behind the Microchip: Robert Noyce and the Invention of Silicon Valley. "

So long and thanks for all the fish.