This is the third entry in a multipart series. You may be interested to read about Shockley Semiconductor and about Fairchild Semiconductor.Robert Noyce resigned from Fairchild Semiconductor on the 25th of June in 1968. When Gordon Moore heard that Noyce was leaving, he chose to leave with him. In his resignation, Noyce stated: “I do not expect to join any company which is simply a manufacturer of semiconductors. I would rather try to find some small company which is trying to develop some produ...