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The integration of tiny transistors led to the first microchip in 1958 built by both Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments and Robert Noyce of Fairchild Semiconductor.

Bob Noyce's nickname was the "Mayor of California's Silicon Valley." He was one of the very first scientists to work in the area -- long before the stretch of California had earned the Silicon name He also invented the integrated chip, one of the stepping stones along the way to the microprocessors in today's computers.

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He was also the founder of Intel corporation in the late 1960s.