로버트 노튼 노이스(Robert Norton Noyce, 별명: the Mayor of Silicon Valley, 1927년 12월 12일 ~ 1990년 6월 3일)는 1957년에 페어차일드 반도체를[1], 1968년에 인텔을 공동 설립한 사람이다.[2][3] 그는 (잭 킬비와 더불어) 집적 회로나 마이크로칩을 발명한 것으로 잘 알려져 있다.[4]
특허
노이스는 15개의 특허를 받았다.
미국 특허 2,875,141Method and apparatus for forming semiconductor structures, filed August 1954, issued February 1959, assigned to Philco Corporation
미국 특허 2,929,753Transistor structure and method, filed April 1957, issued March 1960, assigned to Beckmann Instruments
미국 특허 2,959,681Semiconductor scanning device, filed June 1959, issued November 1960, assigned to Fairchild Semiconductor
미국 특허 2,968,750Transistor structure and method of making the same, filed March 1957, issued January 1961, assigned to Clevite Corporation
미국 특허 2,971,139Semiconductor switching device, filed June 1959, issued February 1961, assigned to Fairchild Semiconductor
미국 특허 2,981,877Semiconductor Device and Lead Structure, filed July 1959, issued April 1961, assigned to Fairchild Semiconductor
미국 특허 3,098,160Field controlled avalanche semiconductive device, filed February 1958, issued July 1963, assigned to Clevite Corporation
미국 특허 3,108,359Method for fabricating transistors, filed June 1959, issued October 1963, assigned to Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp.
미국 특허 3,111,590Transistor structure controlled by an avalanche barrier, filed June 1958, issued November 1963, assigned to Clevite Corporation
미국 특허 3,140,206Method of making a transistor structure (coinventor William Shockley), filed April 1957, issued July 1964, assigned to Clevite Corporation
미국 특허 3,150,299Semiconductor circuit complex having isolation means, filed September 1959, issued September 1964, assigned to Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp.
미국 특허 3,183,129Method of forming a semiconductor, filed July 1963, issued May 1965, assigned to Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp.
미국 특허 3,199,002Solid state circuit with crossing leads, filed April 1961, issued August 1965, assigned to Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp.
미국 특허 3,325,787Trainable system, filed October 1964, issued June 1967, assigned to Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp.
Berlin, LeslieThe man behind the microchip: Robert Noyce and the invention of Silicon Valley Publisher Oxford University Press US, 2005 ISBN0-19-516343-5
Shurkin, Joel N.. Broken Genius: The Rise and Fall of William Shockley, Creator of the Electronic Age Publisher Palgrave Macmillan, 2007 ISBN0-230-55192-0
Lécuyer, Christophe. Making Silicon Valley: Innovation and the Growth of High Tech, 1930-1970 Published by MIT Press, 2006.ISBN0262122812
