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 .'''p70''' 12yo Bob and older brother [[ https://news.yale.edu/2009/09/04/memoriam-gaylord-brewster-noyce-trained-generations-church-leaders | Gaylord ]] (1925-2009) build a glider
  .youngest brother Ralph Harold Noyce
 .'''p74''' Odd jobs for Grinnell College physics professor [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grant_O._Gale | Grant Gale ]] (1903-1998) (who also taught [[ http://www.grinnell.edu/dar/dev/pioneerfund/spotlight/hancock60 | Herbie Hancock ]])
 .'''p84''' graduates Grinnell 1949, MIT 19xx Professors John Slater and Wayne Nottingham
 .'''p88''' musicals lead performer, meets [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Noyce | Betty Bottomley ]]9 1930-1996) at Tufts
 .'''p90''' [[ https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/12296/30936624-MIT.pdf?sequence=2 | A Photoelectric Investigation of Surface States on Insulators ]]
 .'''p92''' Philco R&D under [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_E._Bradley_Jr. | Bill Bradley ]]
 .'''p93''' [[ https://patents.google.com/patent/US2875141A | patent ]] for germanium thickness measurement during etching. rTansmission intensity drops (interference?), then rises until desired thickness is reached. But Philco was going downhill.
 .'''p97''' 1955 APS paper "base widening punch through" read by William Schockley. Noyces moved to California Feb 23, bought house morning before job interview.
 .'''p99-106'''[[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordon_Moore | Gordon Moore ]] Redwood City / 2y San Jose State, Betty Whitaker 1950 UCB / CalTech / JHU telemetry / applied to GE, hired by Schockley
 .'''p108''' Moore "negative entrepreneur", escaping prior unhappy job

The Intel Trinity

How Robert Noyce, Gordon Moore, and Andy Grove Built the World's Most Important Company

Michael S. Malone 2014 BvtnLib 338.7621 MAL


Some interesting factoids. Some may be incorrect. I may add a few notes later, but I would prefer to do so from a revised edition with less redundancy, more explanation, and citing more sources (many of this book's references are Malone's other books, not primary sources, NOT useful).

I enjoyed Leslie Berlin's excellent The Man Behind the Microchip, and Grove's autobiography and management books.

I want to know more about Gordon Moore ("Trinity" was aggravatingly sparse) so ordered a used copy of Moore's Law: the Life of Gordon Moore by Thackray, 2015 through Alibris.


  • p4 David Packard managing HP during WW2 (Hewlett served in Signal Corps). Established targets, trusted (female) employees to learn how to meet them.

  • p5 Lockheed Sunnyvale largest employer in late 1940s

  • p12 Shockley Semiconductor: Photolithography Bob Noyce and Jay Last, Diffusion Gordon More and Jean Hoerni, Crystals Sheldon Roberts, 2n696 double-diffused-base transistor Victor Grinich and Murray Siegel, investors Eugene Kleiner.

  • p14 visionary Noyce presentation to Sherman Fairchild

  • p18 1959 trade show TI integrated circuit, led to Fairchild ICs with planar transistors

  • p21 error: Hired manager Ed Baldwin left in 1959 (with Fairchild IP, and the mesa process, but NOT Hoerni's planar process) to start Rheem, which failed in 1961.

  • p22 Charles Spork, Don Valentine (later VC, Something Ventured), Jerry Sanders, Mike Markkula, Jack Gifford (Intersil, AMD, Maxim), Bob Widlar.

  • p24 Marshal Cox

  • p25 Andy Grove UCB PhD Chemistry, hired 1964

    • Andy Grove's 1967 text "Physics and Technology of Semiconductor Devices" earned me my first summer job at Tektronix in 1969(?).
  • p26 Lester Hogan at Motorola, later to Intel in 1969.

  • p27 (cite?) Spring 1965 conference, Noyce announced all major Fairchild ICs for one dollar

  • p31 error: Widlar sheep, not goat

  • p32 1966 Fairchild, 12000 employees, $130M sales, Spork and Widlar left for National Semiconductor

    • Andy Grove's 1967 text "Physics and Technology of Semiconductor Devices"
  • p36 Fairchild belittled Noyce, Noyce hired Hogan to replace himself (huge salary and options)

  • p44 1968 Noyce, Moore, Arthur Rock start Intel, p46 Grove (as employee) follows Moore

  • p48 Grove recruits Les Vadász Malone obsesses about Grove's dislike of Noyce

  • p54 Silicon gate MOS

  • p55 500K × $5 shares convertable debentures, interest-paying IOUs convertable to stock at IPO

  • p57 $100K investment in 1968 would be $3 billion in 2014

  • p61 Electronics News January 11 1971 Don Hoefler dateline "Silicon Valley"

Robert Noyce

  • p62 Noyce born 1927/12/12 Denmark (SE) Iowa father Ralph Congregational minister, Oberlin wife/mother Harriet

    • Oldest brother Donald Sterling Noyce May 1923, 1948 Chemistry prof at UCB, died November 2004
  • p65 Ralph to Atlantic Iowa, then Decorah, then 1938 Webster City (demomination's associate superintendent), then Grinnell

  • p70 12yo Bob and older brother Gaylord (1925-2009) build a glider

    • youngest brother Ralph Harold Noyce
  • p74 Odd jobs for Grinnell College physics professor Grant Gale (1903-1998) (who also taught Herbie Hancock)

  • p84 graduates Grinnell 1949, MIT 19xx Professors John Slater and Wayne Nottingham

  • p88 musicals lead performer, meets Betty Bottomley9 1930-1996) at Tufts

  • p90 A Photoelectric Investigation of Surface States on Insulators

  • p92 Philco R&D under Bill Bradley

  • p93 patent for germanium thickness measurement during etching. rTansmission intensity drops (interference?), then rises until desired thickness is reached. But Philco was going downhill.

  • p97 1955 APS paper "base widening punch through" read by William Schockley. Noyces moved to California Feb 23, bought house morning before job interview.

  • p99-106Gordon Moore Redwood City / 2y San Jose State, Betty Whitaker 1950 UCB / CalTech / JHU telemetry / applied to GE, hired by Schockley

  • p108 Moore "negative entrepreneur", escaping prior unhappy job

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