Their leader was 29-year-old Robert Noyce, a physicist with a brilliant mind and the affability of a born salesman who would co-invent the microchip — an essential component of nearly all modern ...

The Yin and Yang sign. All painstakingly selected and etched onto a microchip that measures about an inch square. Each microscopic silicon doodle was the handiwork of engineers at Qualcomm ...

The wafers produced by the new equipment were made with a new material, called silicon carbide, used in electric vehicles and the green energy, aerospace and defense industries. The Microchip ...