Fairchild

"Noyce had a PhD in physics and a deep theoretical foundation, but he was outgoing, had leadership charisma, and had business vision—an entrepreneur as well as a scholar. Before joining “Fairchild,” he had served as R&D director under Shockley, the inventor of the transistor and a Nobel Prize winner. Because he disagreed with Shockley, he led eight key R&D executives to defect to Fairchild. Shockley’s company thus collapsed, and Shockley and Noyce became enemies who never spoke to each other. Noyce was quite successful at “Fairchild,” but working under others, he still felt his ambitions were unfulfilled."

"Moore (Gordon Moore, also one of the original eight who left Shockley for Fairchild) left “Fairchild” and founded Intel. Intel was an unprecedented success, and Noyce and Moore became extremely wealthy. In the late 1980s, with his career accomplished and his pockets full, Noyce gradually withdrew from Intel and turned to promoting cooperation within industry and relations between industry and government. Together with several industry players, he co-founded SEMATECH, an organization jointly funded by the government and semiconductor companies to conduct R&D on semiconductor manufacturing processes"