Intel has been spectacularly blessed by its leaders, starting with co-founder Bob Noyce in 1968.

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Come to think of it, Bob Noyce and Jack Kilby were in their 20s when they invented the silicon chip.

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The company's founder, Bob Noyce, took the idea of a transistor and etched it onto a tiny piece of polished sand.

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In 1985, Tony and I founded the Churchill Club and invited Intel Co-Founder Bob Noyce to be our first speaker.

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Watson and Francis Crick's description of DNA's double-helix structure, and in computing, with Jack Kilby's and Bob Noyce's independent inventions of the integrated circuit.

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These men, like Bob Noyce, Charlie Sporck, Tom Bey, Andy Grove and Jerry Sanders, were technically brilliant, fiercely independent, fearless risk-takers, and almost insanely competitive.

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Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore were the powerful pair who started Intel in 1968, but it was a trio who gave it the velocity to conquer the chip world.

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Glasslike silicon dioxide has been the insulator of choice in electronic chips since 1959, when Bob Noyce cobbled together the first silicon integrated circuit--wires and switches etched into silicon insulation.

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Why did Andy Grove dislike Intel co-founder Bob Noyce?

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