[blam]

I was already making chips at National Semi when Intel started up.
Big deal.

BTW, Jack Kilby from TI won the Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the chip....it wasn't Intel.
(Noyce had nothing to do with it. When Noyce was making notes in his note-book about a chip, Kilby already had a working model)

[Swordmaker]

BTW, Jack Kilby from TI won the Nobel Prize in physics for inventing the chip....it wasn't Intel.
(Noyce had nothing to do with it. When Noyce was making notes in his note-book about a chip, Kilby already had a working model)

When a technology’s time is due, it is due. . . There will be multiple people working on it, it becomes a race to the patent office. The sole exception to this appears to be the invention of the phonograph. A truly inspired invention from someone in Edison’s industrial laboratory (probably not Edison).

[bigbob]

What’s that got to do with anything? Intel never claimed to invent the IC, everyone knows that was Jack Kilby. But Faggin, Hoff, and Mazor did invent the first integrated 4 bit microprocessor at Intel in 1971.